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2005-08-29[PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.Steven Rostedt
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it. I've written a program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes, confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled. The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked. 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_ NetBSD 2.0 *). The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this). 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being handled is not blocked. The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to the way most Unix boxes work. Unix boxes that were tested: DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU 3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX. * NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like Linux. So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that behaves differently here with #2. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-23[PATCH] i386: fix incorrect FP signal codeChuck Ebbert
i386 floating-point exception handling has a bug that can cause error code 0 to be sent instead of the proper code during signal delivery. This is caused by unconditionally checking the IS and c1 bits from the FPU status word when they are not always relevant. The IS bit tells whether an exception is a stack fault and is only relevant when the exception is IE (invalid operation.) The C1 bit determines whether a stack fault is overflow or underflow and is only relevant when IS and IE are set. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-19[PATCH] Mobil Pentium 4 HT and the NMISteven Rostedt
I'm trying to get the nmi working with my laptop (IBM ThinkPad G41) and after debugging it a while, I found that the nmi code doesn't want to set it up for this particular CPU. Here I have: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3320.084 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6642.39 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 3320.084 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6637.46 And the following code shows: $ cat linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c [...] void setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (void) { switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) { case X86_VENDOR_AMD: if (boot_cpu_data.x86 != 6 && boot_cpu_data.x86 != 15) return; setup_k7_watchdog(); break; case X86_VENDOR_INTEL: switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) { case 6: if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0xd) return; setup_p6_watchdog(); break; case 15: if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model > 0x3) return; Here I get boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 0x4. So I decided to change it and reboot. I now seem to have a working NMI. So, unless there's something know to be bad about this processor and the NMI. I'm submitting the following patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-18[PATCH] x86: Remove obsolete get_cpu_vendor callAndi Kleen
Since early CPU identify is in this information is already available Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07[PATCH] Move the fix to align node_end_pfns to a proper locationRavikiran G Thirumalai
Move the fix to align node_end_pfns to a proper location. The earlier fix made the node_remap_start_vaddr to get misaligned causing remap_numa_kva to barf again :-/ Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-07[PATCH] visws: linkage fixTom Duffy
This patch add stubs to allow the visws subarch to link again. Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <thomas.duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06[PATCH] i386 visws: Add machine_shutdown and emergency_restartEric W. Biederman
Another x86 subarchitecture bit I missed. This adds both machine_emergency_restart missed in my reboot fixes and machine_shutdown needed for kexec support. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-06[PATCH] i386 voyager: Add machine_shutdownEric W. Biederman
Here is one more bit of breakage my x86 sub-architecture confusion caused. Add machine_shutdown to voyager so it will compile with CONFIG_KEXEC. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-05[PATCH] fix voyager compile after machine_emergency_restart breakageJames Bottomley
[PATCH] i386: Implement machine_emergency_reboot introduced this new function into arch/i386/reboot.c. However, subarchitectures are entitled to implement their own copies of reboot.c from which this new function is now missing. It looks like visws will also need a similar fixup Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04[PATCH] remove special HPET_EMULATE_RTC config optionVenkatesh Pallipadi
We had a user whose apps weren't working correctly because his "rtc" wasn't working fully. For the sake of simplicity, it seems sensible to always enable HPET RTC emulation. Remove a special config option for HPET_EMULATE_RTC and make it directly depend on HPET_TIMER and RTC. This will avoid the hangs when EMULATE_RTC is not configured and when some userlevel script depends on RTC interrupt, as in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] transmeta: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fixAndrew Morton
Fix bug found by Grant Coady <lkml@dodo.com.au>'s autobuild setup. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] disable addres space randomization default on transmeta CPUsEric Lammerts
We know that the randomisation slows down some workloads on Transmeta CPUs by quite large amounts. We think it's because the CPU needs to recode the same x86 instructions when they pop up at a different virtual address after a fork+exec. So disable randomization by default on those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-01[PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()Ingo Molnar
This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now. While i'm sure Martin is trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much for eternity. I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not hit v2.6.13 in its current form. Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ] Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2 where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way: ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. ' in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results, without showing the variability data. How much variance is there run-to-run? I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed and understood! The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or so. The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes. We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of external factors in the VM balance picture. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-30merge 2.6.13-rc4 with ACPI's to-linus treeLen Brown
2005-07-29/home/lenb/src/to-linus branch 'acpi-2.6.12'Len Brown
2005-07-29[ACPI] suspend/resume ACPI PCI Interrupt LinksDavid Shaohua Li
Add reference count and disable ACPI PCI Interrupt Link when no device still uses it. Warn when drivers have not released Link at suspend time. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3469 Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-29[ACPI] Always set P-state on initializationDominik Brodowski
Otherwise a platform that supports ACPI based cpufreq and boots up at lowest possible speed could stay there forever. This because the governor may request max speed, but the code doesn't update if there is no change in speed, and it assumed the initial state of max speed. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4634 Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-29[PATCH] x86: avoid wasting IRQs patch updateNatalie.Protasevich@unisys.com
The patch addresses a problem with ACPI SCI interrupt entry, which gets re-used, and the IRQ is assigned to another unrelated device. The patch corrects the code such that SCI IRQ is skipped and duplicate entry is avoided. Second issue came up with VIA chipset, the problem was caused by original patch assigning IRQs starting 16 and up. The VIA chipset uses 4-bit IRQ register for internal interrupt routing, and therefore cannot handle IRQ numbers assigned to its devices. The patch corrects this problem by allowing PCI IRQs below 16. Signed-off by: Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29[PATCH] mm: Ensure proper alignment for node_remap_start_pfnRavikiran G Thirumalai
While reserving KVA for lmem_maps of node, we have to make sure that node_remap_start_pfn[] is aligned to a proper pmd boundary. (node_remap_start_pfn[] gets its value from node_end_pfn[]) Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
2005-07-29arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c: In function ↵Dave Jones
`powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi': arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:740: warning: unused variable `vid' arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:739: warning: unused variable `fid' arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:743: warning: unused variable `vid' arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:742: warning: unused variable `fid' arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:746: `fid' undeclared (first use in this function) arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c:746: `vid' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-29[PATCH] i386 machine_kexec: Cleanup inline assemblyEric W. Biederman
For some reason I was telling my inline assembly that the input argument was an output argument. Playing in the trampoline code I have seen a couple of instances where lgdt get the wrong size (because the trampolines run in 16bit mode) so use lgdtl and lidtl to be explicit. Additionally gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 want's an lvalue for a memory argument and it doesn't think an array of characters is an lvalue so use a packed structure instead. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-29Fix up powernow-k8 compile. (Missing definitions).Dave Jones
From: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-29Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds
2005-07-28[PATCH] re-disable TSC on NUMAQDave Hansen
Somewhere recently, the TSC got re-enabled for timekeeping on NUMAQ machines. However, the hardware makes these get unsynchronized quite badly. So badly, in fact, that the code to fix up the skew can just hang on boot. This patch re-disables them. It's nicely confined to the numaq.c file. It would be great if this could make it into 2.6.13, I think it counts as a bugfix. Tested on a 16-proc 4-node NUMAQ. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28[PATCH] x86_64: When running cpuid4 need to run on the correct CPUAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28powernow-k8.c: In function `query_current_values_with_pending_wait':Dave Jones
powernow-k8.c:110: warning: `hi' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-07-28Opteron revision F will support higher frequencies thanDave Jones
can be encoded in the current driver's 4 bit frequency field. This patch updates the driver to support Rev F including 6 bit FIDs and processor ID updates. This should apply cleanly whether or not the dual-core bugfix I sent out last week is applied. I'd prefer that both get applied, of course. Signed-off-by: David Keck <david.keck@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-28powernow-k8 requires that a data structure forDave Jones
each core be created in the _cpu_init function call. The cpufreq infrastructure doesn't call _cpu_init for the second core in each processor. Some systems crashed when _get was called with an odd-numbered core because it tried to dereference a NULL pointer since the data structure had not been created. The attached patch solves the problem by initializing data structures for all shared cores in the _cpu_init function. It should apply to 2.6.12-rc6 and has been tested by AMD and Sun. Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-07-28[PATCH] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detectionGiancarlo Formicuccia
This patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-head&m=111955644929114&w=2 uncovered a k7m bios bug, where the VT82C686A router is reported as being "586-compatible". The two chips have different pirq mapping, so this leads to "irq routing conflict" on many pci devices. The suggested fix was discussed with Aleksey Gorelov, who helped me to identify the problem as a probable bios bug. Signed-off-by: Giancarlo Formicuccia <giancarlo.formicuccia@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] sys_get_thread_area does not clear the returned argumentBlaisorblade
sys_get_thread_area does not memset to 0 its struct user_desc info before copying it to user space... since sizeof(struct user_desc) is 16 while the actual datas which are filled are only 12 bytes + 9 bits (across the bitfields), there is a (small) information leak. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] i386: add missing Kconfig help textAdrian Bunk
There's no help text for CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW - add one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] Fix warning in powernow-k8.cBrian Gerst
powernow-k8.c: In function `query_current_values_with_pending_wait': powernow-k8.c:110: warning: `hi' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] APM: Remove redundant call to set_cpus_allowedEric W. Biederman
machine_power_off now always switches to the boot cpu so there is no reason for APM to also do that. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] i386 machine_power_off cleanupEric W. Biederman
Call machine_shutdown() to move to the boot cpu and disable apics. Both acpi_power_off and apm_power_off want to move to the boot cpu. and we are already disabling the local apics so calling machine_shutdown simply reuses code. ia64 doesn't have a special path in power_off for efi so there is no reason i386 should. If we really need to call the efi power off path the efi driver can set pm_power_off like everyone else. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] machine_shutdown: Typo fix to actually allow specifying which cpu to ↵Eric W. Biederman
reboot on This appears to be a typo I introduced when cleaning this code up earlier. Ooops. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] i386: Implement machine_emergency_rebootEric W. Biederman
set_cpus_allowed is not safe in interrupt context and disabling apics is complicated code so don't call machine_shutdown on i386 from emergency_restart(). Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-26[PATCH] Don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, or machine_power_off.Eric W. Biederman
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules have no business messing with. Usually code should be calling kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart, machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-22Remove "noreplacement" kernel command line option.Linus Torvalds
It is no longer valid to not replace instructions, since we depend on different behaviour depending on CPU capabilities. If you need to limit the capabilities of the replacements (because the boot CPU has features that non-boot CPU's do not have, for example), you need to explicitly disable those capabilities that are not shared across all CPU's. For example, if your boot CPU has FXSR, but other CPU's in your system do not, you need to use the "nofxsr" kernel command line, not disable instruction replacement per se.
2005-07-22x86: make restore_fpu() use alternative assembler instructionsLinus Torvalds
It's really just a single instruction, conditional on whether the CPU supports FXSR or not, so implement it as such instead of making it a function that queries FXSR dynamically. This means that the instruction just gets automatically rewritten to the correct one at boot-time.
2005-07-22Fix up incorrect "unlikely()" on %gs reload in x86 __switch_toLinus Torvalds
These days %gs is normally the TLS segment, so it's no longer zero. As a result, we shouldn't just assume that %fs/%gs tend to be zero together, but test them independently instead. Also, fix setting of debug registers to use the "next" pointer instead of "current". It so happens that the scheduler will have set the new current pointer before calling __switch_to(), but that's just an implementation detail.
2005-07-15[PATCH] visws: reexport pm_power_offAlexey Dobriyan
More fallout from the i386_ksyms.c cleanups. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13[PATCH] fix voyager subarchitecture EXPORT_SYMBOL breakage caused by ↵James Bottomley
i386_ksym reduction This patch: [PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost made files like smp.c do their own EXPORT_SYMBOLS. This means that all subarchitectures that override these symbols now have to do the exports themselves. This patch adds the exports for voyager (which is the most affected since it has a separate smp harness). However, someone should audit all the other subarchitectures to see if any others got broken. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] inotifyRobert Love
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] enable C2 and C3 idle power states on SMPVenkatesh Pallipadi
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4401 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] S3 resume -- use lgdtl, not lgdtNickolai Zeldovich
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11[NET]: add a top-level Networking menu to *configSam Ravnborg
Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers menu and up on the top-level where they belong. To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been implemented for all architectures. Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25 are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new networking menu item. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-12[ACPI] PNPACPI vs sound IRQDavid Shaohua Li
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4016 Written-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-07[PATCH] mostly_read data sectionChristoph Lameter
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>