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2010-04-07fbdev: rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt and change imacfb to efifb.Justin P. Mattock
Rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt since imacfb was moved to efifb,and change imacfb to efifb. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] hpwdt - fix lower timeout limit [WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt: TCO Watchdog patch for additional Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs [WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl. [WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync() [WATCHDOG] set max63xx driver as ARM only [WATCHDOG] powerpc: pika_wdt ident cannot be const
2010-04-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits) smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address" r8169: clean up my printk uglyness net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit() net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2) stmmac: add documentation for the driver. stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix drivers/net: Add missing unlock net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics ...
2010-04-06[WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl.James Hogan
In the watchdog-test program and watchdog-api.txt, pass the values to the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl as a pointer to an integer containing the values intead of directly in the third ioctl argument. The actual watchdog drivers in drivers/watchdog don't read the options directly from the argument but use get_user and copy_from_user. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: saving negative to unsigned char 9p: return on mutex_lock_interruptible() 9p: Creating files with names too long should fail with ENAMETOOLONG. 9p: Make sure we are able to clunk the cached fid on umount 9p: drop nlink remove fs/9p: Clunk the fid resulting from partial walk of the name 9p: documentation update 9p: Fix setting of protocol flags in v9fs_session_info structure.
2010-04-059p: documentation updateSripathi Kodi
This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in 2.6.34. Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'master' into export-slabhTejun Heo
2010-04-03[WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync()Giel van Schijndel
Don't terminate the watchdog daemon when fsync() fails because no watchdog driver actually implements the fsync() syscall. Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-04-02Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: powerpc/5200: in lpbfifo, flag DMA irqs as enabled after requesting them powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmware of/flattree: Fix unhandled OF_DT_NOP tag when unflattening the device tree
2010-04-01stmmac: add documentation for the driver.Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Add Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt for the stmmac network driver. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (28 commits) ceph: update discussion list address in MAINTAINERS ceph: some documentations fixes ceph: fix use after free on mds __unregister_request ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documention ceph: fix possible double-free of mds request reference ceph: fix session check on mds reply ceph: handle kmalloc() failure ceph: propagate mds session allocation failures to caller ceph: make write_begin wait propagate ERESTARTSYS ceph: fix snap rebuild condition ceph: avoid reopening osd connections when address hasn't changed ceph: rename r_sent_stamp r_stamp ceph: fix connection fault con_work reentrancy problem ceph: prevent dup stale messages to console for restarting mds ceph: fix pg pool decoding from incremental osdmap update ceph: fix mds sync() race with completing requests ceph: only release unused caps with mds requests ceph: clean up handle_cap_grant, handle_caps wrt session mutex ceph: fix session locking in handle_caps, ceph_check_caps ceph: drop unnecessary WARN_ON in caps migration ...
2010-03-29ceph: some documentations fixesCheng Renquan
New documentation should have an entry in the 00-INDEX. Correct git urls. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-03-26powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmwareTimur Tabi
Define a binding for embedding a QE firmware blob into the device tree. Also define a new property for the QE node that links to a firmware node. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-03-24Document Linux's circular buffering capabilitiesDavid Howells
Document the circular buffering capabilities available in Linux. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reviewed-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24doc: add the documentation for mpol=localKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation. This patch does it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24Documentation: rename PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txtFUJITA Tomonori
This patch renames PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt. The commit 51e7364ef281e540371f084008732b13292622f0 "Documentation: rename PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt" was supposed to do this but it didn't. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> 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>
2010-03-24memcg: fix typo in memcg documentationGreg Thelen
Update memory.txt to be more consistent: s/swapiness/swappiness/ Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.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>
2010-03-24Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: correct cpu_relax() documentationRussell King
cpu_relax() is documented in volatile-considered-harmful.txt to be a memory barrier. However, everyone with the exception of Blackfin and possibly ia64 defines cpu_relax() to be a compiler barrier. Make the documentation reflect the general concensus. Linus sayeth: : I don't think it was ever the intention that it would be seen as anything : but a compiler barrier, although it is obviously implied that it might : well perform some per-architecture actions that have "memory barrier-like" : semantics. : : After all, the whole and only point of the "cpu_relax()" thing is to tell : the CPU that we're busy-looping on some event. : : And that "event" might be (and often is) about reading the same memory : location over and over until it changes to what we want it to be. So it's : quite possible that on various architectures the "cpu_relax()" could be : about making sure that such a tight loop on loads doesn't starve cache : transactions, for example - and as such look a bit like a memory barrier : from a CPU standpoint. : : But it's not meant to have any kind of architectural memory ordering : semantics as far as the kernel is concerned - those must come from other : sources. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-23ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documentionSage Weil
'OSD' means different things to different people; avoid it here to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-03-19Merge 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: numa: fix BUILD_BUG_ON for node_read_distance driver-core: document ERR_PTR() return values kobject: documentation: Update to refer to kset-example.c. sysdev: the cpu probe/release attributes should be sysdev_class_attributes kobject: documentation: Fix erroneous example in kobject doc. driver-core: fix missing kernel-doc in firmware_class Driver core: Early platform kernel-doc update sysfs: fix sysfs lockdep warning in mlx4 code sysfs: fix sysfs lockdep warning in infiniband code sysfs: fix sysfs lockdep warning in ipmi code sysfs: Initialised pci bus legacy_mem field before use sysfs: use sysfs_bin_attr_init in firmware class driver
2010-03-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (45 commits) USB: gadget/multi: cdc_do_config: remove redundant check usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix removed from an attached hub USB: xhci: Make endpoint interval debugging clearer. USB: Fix usb_fill_int_urb for SuperSpeed devices USB: cp210x: Remove double usb_control_msg from cp210x_set_config USB: Remove last bit of CONFIG_USB_BERRY_CHARGE USB: gadget: add gadget controller number for s3c-hsotg driver USB: ftdi_sio: Fix locking for change_speed() function USB: g_mass_storage: fixed module name in Kconfig USB: gadget: f_mass_storage::fsg_bind(): fix error handling USB: g_mass_storage: fix section mismatch warnings USB: gadget: fix Blackfin builds after gadget cleansing USB: goku_udc: remove potential null dereference USB: option.c: Add Pirelli VID/PID and indicate Pirelli's modem interface is 0xff USB: serial: Fix module name typo for qcaux Kconfig entry. usb: cdc-wdm: Fix deadlock between write and resume usb: cdc-wdm: Fix order in disconnect and fix locking usb: cdc-wdm:Fix loss of data due to autosuspend usb: cdc-wdm: Fix submission of URB after suspension usb: cdc-wdm: Fix race between disconnect and debug messages ...
2010-03-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (205 commits) ceph: update for write_inode API change ceph: reset osd after relevant messages timed out ceph: fix flush_dirty_caps race with caps migration ceph: include migrating caps in issued set ceph: fix osdmap decoding when pools include (removed) snaps ceph: return EBADF if waiting for caps on closed file ceph: set osd request message front length correctly ceph: reset front len on return to msgpool; BUG on mismatched front iov ceph: fix snaptrace decoding on cap migration between mds ceph: use single osd op reply msg ceph: reset bits on connection close ceph: remove bogus mds forward warning ceph: remove fragile __map_osds optimization ceph: fix connection fault STANDBY check ceph: invalidate_authorizer without con->mutex held ceph: don't clobber write return value when using O_SYNC ceph: fix client_request_forward decoding ceph: drop messages on unregistered mds sessions; cleanup ceph: fix comments, locking in destroy_inode ceph: move dereference after NULL test ... Fix trivial conflicts in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
2010-03-19USB: Fix documentation for avoid_reset_quirkOliver Neukum
The name used in the documentation doesn't match reality. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <neukum@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-19kobject: documentation: Update to refer to kset-example.c.Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-19kobject: documentation: Fix erroneous example in kobject doc.Robert P. J. Day
Replace uio_mem example for kobjects with uio_map, since the uio_mem struct no longer contains a kobject. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-15Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2010-03-15timestamping: fix example buildRandy Dunlap
Fix Makefiles so that Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c will build when using the CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC kconfig option. (timestamping.c does not build currently with its simple Makefile.) Also fix printf format warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-14Merge branches 'battery-2.6.34', 'bugzilla-10805', 'bugzilla-14668', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-531916-power-state', 'ht-warn-2.6.34', 'pnp', 'processor-rename', 'sony-2.6.34', 'suse-bugzilla-531547', 'tz-check', 'video' and 'misc-2.6.34' into release
2010-03-14ACPI: processor: remove early _PDC optin quirksAlex Chiang
Now that we check for physically present processors before blindly evaluating _PDC, we no longer need to maintain a DMI opt-in table nor a kernel param. Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-03-14ACPI: plan to delete "acpi=ht" boot optionLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-03-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits) doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog doc: fix console doc typo doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm" tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code drm/kms: fix spelling in error message doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/ Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments ... Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (370 commits) ARM: S3C2443: Add set_rate and round_rate calls for armdiv clock ARM: S3C2443: Remove #if 0 for clk_mpll ARM: S3C2443: Update notes on MPLLREF clock ARM: S3C2443: Further clksrc-clk conversions ARM: S3C2443: Change to using plat-samsung clksrc-clk implementation USB: Fix s3c-hsotg build following Samsung platform header moves ARM: S3C64XX: Reintroduce unconditional build of audio device ARM: 5961/1: ux500: fix CLKRST addresses ARM: 5977/1: arm: Enable backtrace printing on oops when PC is corrupted ASoC: Fix S3C64xx IIS driver for Samsung header reorg ARM: S3C2440: Fix plat-s3c24xx move of s3c2440/s3c2442 support [ARM] pxa: fix typo in mxm8x10.h [ARM] pxa/raumfeld: set GPIO drive bits for LED pins [ARM] pxa/zeus: Add support for mcp2515 CAN bus [ARM] pxa/zeus: Add support for onboard max6369 watchdog [ARM] pxa/zeus: Add Eurotech as the manufacturer [ARM] pxa/zeus: Correct the USB host initialisation flags [ARM] pxa/zeus: Allow usage of 8250-compatible UART in uncompress [ARM] pxa: refactor uncompress.h for non-PXA uarts [ARM] mmp2: fix incorrect calling of chip->mask_ack() for 2nd level cascaded IRQs ...
2010-03-12ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line disciplinesRodolfo Giometti
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12Documentation: rename PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txtFUJITA Tomonori
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> 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>
2010-03-12Documentation: remove the PCI DMA API description in DMA-API.txtFUJITA Tomonori
- remove the PCI DMA API description in DMA-API.txt - remove the descriptions of dma_unmap macros since PCI-DMA-mapping.txt has the same description. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-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>
2010-03-12Documentation: convert PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to use the generic DMA APIFUJITA Tomonori
- replace the PCI DMA API (i.e. pci_dma_*) with the generic DMA API. - make the document more generic (use the PCI specific explanation as an example). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things Randy noticed] Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-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>
2010-03-12dma-mapping: dma-mapping.h: add dma_set_coherent_maskFUJITA Tomonori
dma_set_coherent_mask corresponds to pci_set_consistent_dma_mask. This is necessary to move to the generic device model DMA API from the PCI bus specific API in the long term. dma_set_coherent_mask works in the exact same way that pci_set_consistent_dma_mask does. So this patch also changes pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to call dma_set_coherent_mask. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12dma-mapping.h: add the dma_unmap state APIFUJITA Tomonori
Adds the following macros: DECLARE_DMA_UNMAP_ADDR(ADDR_NAME) DECLARE_DMA_UNMAP_LEN(LEN_NAME) dma_unmap_addr(PTR, ADDR_NAME) dma_unmap_addr_set(PTR, ADDR_NAME, VAL) dma_unmap_len(PTR, LEN_NAME) dma_unmap_len_set(PTR, LEN_NAME, VAL) The API corresponds to the pci_unmap state API. We'll move to this new generic API from the PCI specific API in the long term. As include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h does, the pci_unmap API simply calls the new generic API for some time. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12DMA-API.txt: remove dma_sync_single_range descriptionFUJITA Tomonori
dma_sync_single_for_cpu/for_device supports a partial sync so there is no point to have dma_sync_single_range (also dma_sync_single was obsoleted long ago, replaced with dma_sync_single_for_cpu/for_device). There is no user of dma_sync_single_range() in mainline and only Alpha architecture supports dma_sync_single_range(). So it's unlikely that someone out of the tree uses it. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12DMA-API.txt: add dma_sync_single/sg API descriptionFUJITA Tomonori
This adds the description of the following eight function: dma_sync_single_for_cpu pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu dma_sync_single_for_device pci_dma_sync_single_for_device dma_sync_sg_for_cpu pci_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu dma_sync_sg_for_device pci_dma_sync_sg_for_device It was unclear that the API permits a partial sync (some network drivers already do though). I made it clear that the sync_single API can do a partial sync but the sync_sg API can't. We could do a partial sync with the sync_sg API too, however, it's difficult for driver writers to correctly use the sync_sg API for a partial sync since the scatterlists passed in to the mapping API can't be modified. It's unlikely that driver writers want to do a partial sync with the sync_sg API (because the sync_sg API are usually used for block drivers). So I think that it's better to forbid a partial sync with the sync_sg API. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12Documentation/DMA-API.txt: remove deprecated function descriptionsFUJITA Tomonori
dma_sync_single(), pci_dma_sync_single(), dma_sync_sg(), and pci_dma_sync_sg() are deprecated. We should not advertise them. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12ipmi: add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmidMartin Wilck
In some cases kipmid can use a lot of CPU. This adds a way to tune the CPU used by kipmid to help in those cases. By setting kipmid_max_busy_us to a value between 100 and 500, it is possible to bring down kipmid CPU load to practically 0 without loosing too much ipmi throughput performance. Not setting the value, or setting the value to zero, operation is unaffected. Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12memcg: fix typos in memcg_test.txtKirill A. Shutemov
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-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>
2010-03-12memcg: update memcg_test.txt to describe memory thresholdsKirill A. Shutemov
Decription of sanity check for memory thresholds. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12cgroups: add simple listener of cgroup events to documentationKirill A. Shutemov
An example of cgroup notification API usage. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12memcg: handle panic_on_oom=always caseKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Presently, if panic_on_oom=2, the whole system panics even if the oom happend in some special situation (as cpuset, mempolicy....). Then, panic_on_oom=2 means painc_on_oom_always. Now, memcg doesn't check panic_on_oom flag. This patch adds a check. BTW, how it's useful ? kdump+panic_on_oom=2 is the last tool to investigate what happens in oom-ed system. When a task is killed, the sysytem recovers and there will be few hint to know what happnes. In mission critical system, oom should never happen. Then, panic_on_oom=2+kdump is useful to avoid next OOM by knowing precise information via snapshot. TODO: - For memcg, it's for isolate system's memory usage, oom-notiifer and freeze_at_oom (or rest_at_oom) should be implemented. Then, management daemon can do similar jobs (as kdump) or taking snapshot per cgroup. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12memcg: update memcg_test.txtDaisuke Nishimura
Update memcg_test.txt to describe how to test the move-charge feature. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12memcg: implement memory thresholdsKirill A. Shutemov
It allows to register multiple memory and memsw thresholds and gets notifications when it crosses. To register a threshold application need: - create an eventfd; - open memory.usage_in_bytes or memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes; - write string like "<event_fd> <memory.usage_in_bytes> <threshold>" to cgroup.event_control. Application will be notified through eventfd when memory usage crosses threshold in any direction. It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup. It uses stats to track memory usage, simmilar to soft limits. It checks if we need to send event to userspace on every 100 page in/out. I guess it's good compromise between performance and accuracy of thresholds. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: fix documentation merge issue] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notificationsKirill A. Shutemov
This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups and implements memory notifications on top of it. It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage. Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs: Root cgroup before changes: make -j2 506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total Non-root cgroup before changes: make -j2 507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total This patch: Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup. To register new notification handler you need: - create an eventfd; - open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() must be defined for the control file; - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control. Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation; eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the cgroup is removed. To unregister notification handler just close eventfd. If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the struct cftype. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>