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Nick Piggin
73f10281ea read_barrier_depends arch fixlets
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all
architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all
other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14 10:05:18 -07:00
Michael Krufky
3c3852cda6 V4L/DVB (7827): cx23885: add missing subsystem ID for Hauppauge HVR-1200 OEM
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-05-14 02:54:00 -03:00
Michael Krufky
74ee05109c V4L/DVB (7823): em28xx: add additional usb subids for Hauppauge HVR-950
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-05-14 02:54:00 -03:00
Dhaval Giani
0f146a764f cgroups: fix documentation
Correct the cgroups documentation to reflect the correct file names.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:25 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong
241937b863 adt7473: minor documentation update
Add a sentence about when fan speed increases to maximum.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:24 -07:00
Jean Delvare
88b283281f i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
Attempt to make the documentation about the I2C/SMBus functionality
checking API clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-11 20:37:05 +02:00
David Brownell
1a31a88f4f i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
Improve the smbus-protocol documentation file somewhat:

 - Use the names of the SMBus protocol operations (from the 2.0
   specification), not made-up-for-Linux names.

 - Add the name of the call used to execute each operation ... and
   point out that there are mismatches, where functions execute
   different protocol operations than their names specify.
   
The most confusing examples are that "Read Byte" isn't executed by
i2c_smbus_read_byte(), and that "Write Byte" isn't executed by
i2c_smbus_write_byte().  When coding, that's not as bad as it may
seem; but that case would seem to be worth fixing.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-11 20:37:05 +02:00
Michael Ernst
139b83dd57 [S390] cio: Remove cio_msg kernel parameter.
The only sporadically used CIO_DEBUG messages are replaced by ordinary
CIO_MSG_EVENT messages. The CIO_MSG_EVENT messages debug levels are
consolidated.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst <mernst@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07 09:23:01 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
33dcdac2df [PATCH] kill ->put_inode
And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we
can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward
interface.

(It's kinda funny that even the description in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)

Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of
struct super_operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-06 13:45:34 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bb896afe20 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes:
  sched: default to n for GROUP_SCHED and FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  sched, x86: add HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  sched: fix cpu clock
  sched: fair-group: fix a Div0 error of the fair group scheduler
  sched: fix missing locking in sched_domains code
  sched: make clock sync tunable by architecture code
  sched: fix debugging
  sched: fix sched_info_switch not being called according to documentation
  sched: fix hrtick_start_fair and CPU-Hotplug
  sched: fix SCHED_FAIR wake-idle logic error
  sched: fix RT task-wakeup logic
  sched: add statics, don't return void expressions
  sched: add debug checks to idle functions
  sched: remove old sched doc
  sched: make rt_sched_class, idle_sched_class static
  sched: optimize calc_delta_mine()
  sched: fix normalized sleeper
2008-05-05 17:31:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
733a0771df sched: remove old sched doc
Fabio Checconi noticed that Documentation/scheduler/sched-design.txt was
a stale copy of the old scheduler. Remove it.

Reported-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-05 23:56:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
108c196184 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  x86 PCI: call dmi_check_pciprobe()
  x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
  x86/pci: remove flag in pci_cfg_space_size_ext
  x86: fix section mismatch in pci_scan_bus
2008-05-05 12:39:10 -07:00
Finn Thain
b6d9d267f0 m68k: remove old mac_esp cruft
Remove the rest of the old mac_esp driver. Also ditch the rest of the
machw mechanism, it needs to be replaced by a fake openfirmware tree.

Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-05 12:38:50 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
13a6ddb08e x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards.

also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with acpi.
it could spare some calling when we have several peer root buses.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-05-05 09:22:08 -07:00
grzegorz.chwesewicz@chilan.com
f92509371e kgdb: minor documentation fixes
Two minor fixes to the kgdb documentation.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Chwesewicz, Chilan <grzegorz.chwesewicz@chilan.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-05-05 07:13:21 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
2cb1e1257f kconfig-language.txt: remove bogus hint
For the use case the hint describe a simple dependency is
enough.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-05-04 21:05:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c402f98c6d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: #ifdef simplification
  slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
  slub: Whitespace cleanup and use of strict_strtoul
2008-05-03 10:18:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c36c804559 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus
  [POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig
  [POWERPC] PS3: Remove unsupported wakeup sources
  [POWERPC] PS3: Make ps3_virq_setup and ps3_virq_destroy static
  [POWERPC] PS3: Add time include to lpm
  [POWERPC] Fix slb.c compile warnings
  [POWERPC] Xilinx: Fix compile warnings
  [POWERPC] Squash build warning for print of resource_size_t in fsl_soc.c
  [RAPIDIO] fix current kernel-doc notation
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for PCI Express x8 slot
  Fix a potential issue in mpc52xx uart driver
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
  [POWERPC] 86xx: Fix the wrong serial1 interrupt for 8610 board
2008-05-03 10:01:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d626e3bf72 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
  [SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
  [SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
  [SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
  [SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd->cmnd use request->cmd buffer
  [SCSI] bsg: add large command support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
  [SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
  [SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
  [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
2008-05-02 13:52:35 -07:00
Rusty Russell
a007a751d9 lguest: make Launcher see device status updates
This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:54 +10:00
Rusty Russell
cb38fa23c1 virtio: de-structify virtio_block status byte
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.

Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02 21:50:45 +10:00
Christoph Lameter
f715e6f15e slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
Add functionality to slabinfo to print out the number of fallbacks
that have occurred for each slab cache when the -D option is specified.
Also widen the allocation / free field since the numbers became
too big after a week.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-05-02 00:26:51 +03:00
Grant Likely
80791be111 [POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
Various improvements for configuring the MPC5200 MII link from the
device tree:
* Look for 'current-speed' property for fixed speed MII links
* Look for 'fsl,7-wire-mode' property for boards using the 7 wire mode
* move definition of private data structure out of the header file

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
2008-05-01 11:05:58 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
c92758ceda Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
  hwmon: (adt7473) minor cleanup / refactoring
  hwmon: (asb100) Remove some dead code
  hwmon: (lm75) Fix an incorrect comment
  hwmon: (w83793) VID and VRM handling cleanups
  hwmon: (w83l785ts) Don't ask the user to report failures
  hwmon: (smsc47b397) add a new chip id (0x8c)
2008-05-01 08:28:26 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
be089d79c4 kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges.  eg:

 crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M.  Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.

Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling.  Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.

[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
08acd4f8af Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (179 commits)
  ACPI: Fix acpi_processor_idle and idle= boot parameters interaction
  acpi: fix section mismatch warning in pnpacpi
  intel_menlo: fix build warning
  ACPI: Cleanup: Remove unneeded, multiple local dummy variables
  ACPI: video - fix permissions on some proc entries
  ACPI: video - properly handle errors when registering proc elements
  ACPI: video - do not store invalid entries in attached_array list
  ACPI: re-name acpi_pm_ops to acpi_suspend_ops
  ACER_WMI/ASUS_LAPTOP: fix build bug
  thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup failed
  ACPI: check a return value correctly in acpi_power_get_context()
  #if 0 acpi/bay.c:eject_removable_drive()
  eeepc-laptop: add hwmon fan control
  eeepc-laptop: add backlight
  eeepc-laptop: add base driver
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix selects in Kconfig
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fluff really minor fix
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentation
  ...

Fixed conflicts in drivers/acpi/video.c and drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
manually.
2008-04-30 11:52:52 -07:00
Len Brown
96916090f4 Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release 2008-04-30 13:58:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ec31b21241 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix crashkernel= handling when no crashkernel= specified
  [POWERPC] Make emergency stack safe for current_thread_info() use
  [POWERPC] spufs: add .gitignore for spu_save_dump.h & spu_restore_dump.h
  [POWERPC] spufs: trace spu_acquire_saved events
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix marker name for find_victim
  [POWERPC] spufs: add marker for destroy_spu_context
  [POWERPC] spufs: add sputrace marker parameter names
  [POWERPC] spufs: add context switch notification log
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: defconfigs for CM5200, Lite5200B, Motion-PRO and TQM5200
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Switch mpc5200 dts files to dts-v1 format
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix FEC error handling on FIFO errors
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add Phytec pcm030 board support
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add gpiolib support for mpc5200
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: add interrupt type function
  [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix unterminated of_device_id table
2008-04-30 08:37:40 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
691cc54c7d debugobjects: add documentation
Add a DocBook for debugobjects.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:

1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects

Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore.  One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.

While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause.  This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.

The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.

Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.

The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash.  Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.

Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.

The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.

The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list

Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation.  When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.

The list of operations can be extended if the need arises.  For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).

The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets.  The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree.  Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.

The debug code can be compiled in without being active.  The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives.  A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.

Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
f7511d5f66 Basic braille screen reader support
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support.  This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g.  on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b88473f73e mm: document missing fields for /proc/meminfo
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented.  Fix.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
76f1418b48 mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfs
Move BDI statistics to debugfs:

   /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/<bdi>/stats

Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs,
because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall().

Update descriptions in ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
a42dde0415 mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit
Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the maximum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in max_ratio_store().
 - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules
 - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
189d3c4a94 mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit
Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.

min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device.  This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS.  (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)

max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device.  This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache.  Eg.  an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.

Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
cf0ca9fe5d mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs
Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5cd204550b Deprecate find_task_by_pid()
There are some places that are known to operate on tasks'
global pids only:

* the rest_init() call (called on boot)
* the kgdb's getthread
* the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns)

So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there
and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal.

[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
957d33fc1a docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)
Don't refer to file that no longer exists:
docproc: linux-2.6.25-git14/arch/powerpc/kernel/rio.c: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 20:40:00 -07:00
bo yang
127ce971ad [SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
Update the Version and Changelog for megaraid_sas Driver

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-29 19:43:12 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2d5e3e8d28 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (28 commits)
  V4L-DVB(7789a): cx18: fix symbol conflict with ivtv driver
  V4L/DVB (7789): tuner: remove static dependencies on analog tuner sub-modules
  V4L/DVB (7785): [2.6 patch] make mt9{m001,v022}_controls[] static
  V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip
  V4L/DVB (7783): drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c: printk fix
  V4L/DVB (7782): pvrusb2: Driver is no longer experimental
  V4L/DVB (7781): pvrusb2-dvb: include dvb support by default and update Kconfig help text
  V4L/DVB (7780): pvrusb2: always enable support for OnAir Creator / HDTV USB2
  V4L/DVB (7779): pvrusb2-dvb: quiet down noise in kernel log for feed debug
  Rename common tuner Kconfig names to use the same
  Fix V4L/DVB core help messages
  V4L/DVB (7769): Move other terrestrial tuners to common/tuners
  V4L/DVB (7768): reorganize some DVB-S Kconfig items
  V4L/DVB(7767): Move tuners to common/tuners
  V4L/DVB (7766): saa7134: add another PCI ID for Beholder M6
  V4L/DVB (7765): Add support for Beholder BeholdTV H6
  V4L/DVB (7763): ivtv: add tuner support for the AverMedia M116
  V4L/DVB (7762): ivtv: fix tuner detection for PAL-N/Nc
  V4L/DVB (7761): ivtv: increase the DMA timeout from 100 to 300 ms
  V4L/DVB (7759): ivtv: increase version number to 1.2.1
  ...
2008-04-29 14:53:40 -07:00
Hans Verkuil
1c1e45d17b V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip
Many thanks to Steve Toth from Hauppauge and Nattu Dakshinamurthy from
Conexant for their support. I am in particular thankful to Hauppauge
since without their help this driver would not exist. It should also
be noted that Steve did the work to get the DVB part up and running.
Thank you!

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: G. Andrew Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-04-29 18:41:41 -03:00
Igor Kuznetsov
5fe95e0b86 V4L/DVB (7766): saa7134: add another PCI ID for Beholder M6
Signed-off-by: Igor Kuznetsov <igk@igk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-04-29 18:41:37 -03:00
Igor Kuznetsov
025052716d V4L/DVB (7765): Add support for Beholder BeholdTV H6
Signed-off-by: Igor Kuznetsov <igk@igk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-04-29 18:41:36 -03:00
Jean Delvare
d2653e9273 i2c: Add support for device alias names
Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.

This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2008-04-29 23:11:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a217656cb2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  pciehp: fix error message about getting hotplug control
  pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown v2
  pci/irq: restore mask_bits in msi shutdown -v3
  doc: replace yet another dev with pdev for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt
  PCI: don't expose struct pci_vpd to userspace
  doc: fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL for PCI like buses
  Consistently use pdev as the variable of type struct pci_dev *.
  pciehp: Fix command write
  shpchp: fix slot name
  make pciehp_acpi_get_hp_hw_control_from_firmware()
  pciehp: Clean up pcie_init()
  pciehp: Mask hotplug interrupt at controller release
  pciehp: Remove useless hotplug interrupt enabling
  pciehp: Fix wrong slot capability check
  pciehp: Fix wrong slot control register access
  pciehp: Add missing memory barrier
  pciehp: Fix interrupt event handlig
  pciehp: fix slot name
  Update MAINTAINERS with location of PCI tree
  PCI: Add Intel SCH PCI IDs
  ...
2008-04-29 10:17:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
25a025863e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  [ALSA] soc - wm9712 - checkpatch fixes
  [ALSA] pcsp - Fix more dependency
  [ALSA] hda - Add support of Medion RIM 2150
  [ALSA] ASoC: Add drivers for the Texas Instruments OMAP processors
  [ALSA] ice1724 - Enable watermarks
  [ALSA] Add MPU401_INFO_NO_ACK bitflag
2008-04-29 09:38:52 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
df99cd334e [ALSA] hda - Add support of Medion RIM 2150
Added the support of Medion RIM 2150 laptop with ALC880 codec.
ALSA bug#3708:
	https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3708

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-04-29 19:01:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1f43c53930 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes:
  x86: fix PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp
  x86: vget_cycles() __always_inline
  x86: add more boot protocol documentation
  bootprotocol: cleanup
  x86: fix warning in "x86: clean up vSMP detection"
  x86: !x & y typo in mtrr code
2008-04-29 09:03:19 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
2768f92c06 doc: replace yet another dev with pdev for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt
Replace "dev" with "pdev" for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt.

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
2008-04-29 08:55:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
44473d9913 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] state info wrong after resume
  [CPUFREQ] allow use of the powersave governor as the default one
  [CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
  [CPUFREQ] expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism
2008-04-29 08:18:49 -07:00
Tim Gardner
8c4dd60682 edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services.  CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel.  Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
David Howells
0b77f5bfb4 keys: make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys
Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys files:

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys
     /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes

     Maximum number of keys that root may have and the maximum total number of
     bytes of data that root may have stored in those keys.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys
     /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes

     Maximum number of keys that each non-root user may have and the maximum
     total number of bytes of data that each of those users may have stored in
     their keys.

Also increase the quotas as a number of people have been complaining that it's
not big enough.  I'm not sure that it's big enough now either, but on the
other hand, it can now be set in /etc/sysctl.conf.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Cc: <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
David Howells
70a5bb72b5 keys: add keyctl function to get a security label
Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key.

The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt:

 (*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer,
		    size_t buflen)

     This function returns a string that represents the LSM security context
     attached to a key in the buffer provided.

     Unless there's an error, it always returns the amount of data it could
     produce, even if that's too big for the buffer, but it won't copy more
     than requested to userspace. If the buffer pointer is NULL then no copy
     will take place.

     A NUL character is included at the end of the string if the buffer is
     sufficiently big.  This is included in the returned count.  If no LSM is
     in force then an empty string will be returned.

     A process must have view permission on the key for this function to be
     successful.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare keyctl_get_security()]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
David Howells
4a38e122e2 keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string
Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string for
internal kernel services that call any request_key_*() interface other than
request_key().  request_key() itself still takes a NUL-terminated string.

The functions that change are:

	request_key_with_auxdata()
	request_key_async()
	request_key_async_with_auxdata()

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
02d15c4322 doc: fix DMA-API function parameters
Fix kernel bugzilla #10388.

DMA-API.txt has wrong argument type for some functions.  It uses struct device
but should use struct pci_dev.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:12 -07:00
Arthur Kepner
a75b0a2f68 dma: document dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces
Document the new dma_*map*_attrs() functions.

[markn@au1.ibm.com: fix up for dma-add-dma_map_attrs-interfaces and update docs]
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
Paul Menage
786083667e Cpuset hardwall flag: add a mem_hardwall flag to cpusets
This flag provides the hardwalling properties of mem_exclusive, without
enforcing the exclusivity.  Either mem_hardwall or mem_exclusive is sufficient
to prevent GFP_KERNEL allocations from passing outside the cpuset's assigned
nodes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
faebe9fdf3 memcgroups: add a document describing the resource counter abstraction
The resource counter is supposed to facilitate the resource accounting of
arbitrary resource (and it already does this for memory controller).

However, it is about to be used in other resources controllers (swap, kernel
memory, networking, etc), so provide a doc describing how to work with it.
This will eliminate all the possible future duplications in the appropriate
controllers' docs.

Fixed errors pointed out by Randy.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation tpyo]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:10 -07:00
Li Zefan
e8d55fdeb8 cgroups: simplify init_subsys()
We are at system boot and there is only 1 cgroup group (i,e, init_css_set), so
we don't need to run through the css_set linked list.  Neither do we need to
run through the task list, since no processes have been created yet.

Also referring to a comment in cgroup.h:

struct css_set
{
	...
	/*
	 * Set of subsystem states, one for each subsystem. This array
	 * is immutable after creation apart from the init_css_set
	 * during subsystem registration (at boot time).
	 */
	struct cgroup_subsys_state *subsys[CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT];
}

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: 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>
2008-04-29 08:06:10 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
08ce5f16ee cgroups: implement device whitelist
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device
files.  A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup.
 A whitelist entry has 4 fields.  'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block).
'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers.  Major
and minor are either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
(read), w (write), and m (mknod).

The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child devcg gets a copy of
the parent.  Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new
entries.  A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its
parent.  However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not
also be removed from the child(ren).

An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using
devices.deny.  For instance

	echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow

allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
/dev/null.  Doing

	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny

will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new
cgroup.  A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent
has.  Any task can move itself between cgroups.  This won't be sufficient, but
we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
Andres Salomon
3ef0e1f8ca x86: olpc: add One Laptop Per Child architecture support
This adds support for OLPC XO hardware.  Open Firmware on XOs don't contain
the VSA, so it is necessary to emulate the PCI BARs in the kernel.  This also
adds functionality for running EC commands, and a CONFIG_OLPC.

A number of OLPC drivers depend upon CONFIG_OLPC.

olpc_ec_timeout is a hack to work around Embedded Controller bugs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: geode_has_vsa build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: olpc_register_battery_callback doesn't exist]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
Rik van Riel
5045bcae0f sysrq: add show-backtrace-on-all-cpus function
SysRQ-P is not always useful on SMP systems, since it usually ends up showing
the backtrace of a CPU that is doing just fine, instead of the backtrace of
the CPU that is having problems.

This patch adds SysRQ show-all-cpus(L), which shows the backtrace of every
active CPU in the system.  It skips idle CPUs because some SMP systems are
just too large and we already know what the backtrace of the idle task looks
like.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:03 -07:00
Nur Hussein
95b570c9ce Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)
The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and
whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set.  This is useful to
know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag
in the taint state.

This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition.
These archs are:
	1. s390
	2. superh
	3. avr32
	4. parisc

The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list
in this email to alert them to the situation.

The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the
new flag.

Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
68f12ae5d7 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20
Full LED sysfs support, and the rest of the assorted minor fixes and
enhancements are a good reason to checkpoint a new version...

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:47:03 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
65807cc284 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentation
Change all occourences of the "led" word to full uppercase in user
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:47:02 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
af11610192 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs led class support to thinkpad leds (v3.2)
Add a sysfs led class interface to the led subdriver.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:47:02 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
e306501d1c ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs led class support for thinklight (v3.1)
Add a sysfs led class interface to the thinklight (light subdriver).

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:47:01 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
95e57ab2cb ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: claim tpacpi as an official short handle (v1.1)
Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the kernel has size limitations, so
"thinkpad-acpi" ends up eating up too much real estate.  We were using
"tpacpi" in symbols already, but this shorthand was not visible to
userland.

Document that the driver will use tpacpi as a short hand where necessary,
and use it to name the kernel thread for NVRAM polling (now named
"ktpacpi_nvramd").

Also, register a module alias with the shorthand.  One can refer to the
module using the shorthand name.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:47:01 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
b59727965d ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: BIOS backlight mode helper (v2.1)
Lenovo ThinkPads with generic ACPI backlight level control can be easily
set to react to keyboard brightness key presses in a more predictable way
than what they do when in "DOS / bootloader" mode after Linux brings
up the ACPI interface.

The switch to the ACPI backlight mode in the firmware is designed to be
safe to use only as an one way trapdoor.  One is not to force the firmware
to switch back to "DOS/bootloader" mode except by rebooting.  The mode
switch itself is performed by calling any of the ACPI _BCL methods at least
once.

When in ACPI mode, the backlight firmware just issues (standard) events for
the brightness up/down hot key presses along with the non-standard HKEY
events which thinkpad-acpi traps, and doesn't touch the hardware.

thinkpad-acpi will:

1. Place the ThinkPad firmware in ACPI backlight control mode
   if one is available
2. Suppress HKEY backlight change notifications by default
   to avoid double-reporting when ACPI video is loaded when
   the ThinkPad is in ACPI backlight control mode
3. Urge the user to load the ACPI video driver

The user is free to use either the ACPI video driver to get the brightness
key events, or to override the thinkpad-acpi default hotkey mask to get
them from thinkpad-acpi as well (this will result in duplicate events if
ACPI video is loaded, so let's hope distros won't screw this up).

Provided userspace is sane, all should work (and *keep* working), which is
more that can be said about the non-ACPI mode of the new Lenovo ThinkPad
BIOSes when coupled to current userspace and X.org drivers.

Full guidelines for backlight hot key reporting and use of the
thinkpad-acpi backlight interface have been added to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 09:46:59 -04:00
s.hauer@pengutronix.de
3cd2550c73 [POWERPC] mpc5200: add gpiolib support for mpc5200
This patch adds gpiolib support for mpc5200 SOCs.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-04-29 07:16:59 -06:00
Ian Campbell
4c0587e6e4 x86: add more boot protocol documentation
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-29 13:45:24 +02:00
Zhang Rui
e9ae71078b thermal: update the documentation
Update the documentation for the thermal driver hwmon sys I/F.

Change the ACPI thermal zone type to be consistent with hwmon.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29 02:49:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
f05c463be5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kconfig: add named choice group
  kconfig: fix choice dependency check
  kconifg: 'select' considered less evil
  dontdiff: ignore timeconst.h
  dontdiff: add modules.order
  kbuild: fix unportability in gen_initramfs_list.sh
  kbuild: fix help output to show correct arch
  kbuild: show defconfig subdirs in make help
  kconfig: reversed borderlines in inputbox
2008-04-28 17:29:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e97e386b12 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: pack objects denser
  slub: Calculate min_objects based on number of processors.
  slub: Drop DEFAULT_MAX_ORDER / DEFAULT_MIN_OBJECTS
  slub: Simplify any_slab_object checks
  slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache
  slub: Drop fallback to page allocator method
  slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation
  slub: Update statistics handling for variable order slabs
  slub: Add kmem_cache_order_objects struct
  slub: for_each_object must be passed the number of objects in a slab
  slub: Store max number of objects in the page struct.
  slub: Dump list of objects not freed on kmem_cache_close()
  slub: free_list() cleanup
  slub: improve kmem_cache_destroy() error message
  slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment.
2008-04-28 14:08:56 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
dfecbec8b5 kconifg: 'select' considered less evil
While select should be used with care, it is not actually evil.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-28 22:59:31 +02:00
Ben Dooks
beda8ae716 dontdiff: ignore timeconst.h
Ignore the autobuilt kernel/timeconst.h when
using diff on an built kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-28 22:51:56 +02:00
Ben Dooks
a72a431bf8 dontdiff: add modules.order
Add modules.order to the list of files that
shoud be ignored when using diff on a built
kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-28 22:51:55 +02:00
Darrick J. Wong
605400a8ab [CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
There is a description of some of the sysfs files.  However, there are some
that are not mentioned in the documentation, so add them to the user's guide.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-04-28 16:27:08 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
a04140e17b docbook: fix bitops fatal filename error
bitops source file was renamed, so fix docbook for that.
docproc: linux-2.6.25-git11/include/asm-x86/bitops_32.h: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 10:26:51 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
97a34eb77c doc: fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL for PCI like buses
Fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL to pci_alloc_consistent
for PCI like buses where devices don't have struct pci_dev (like ISA, EISA).

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
2008-04-28 10:07:28 -07:00
Matti Linnanvuori
819e32377e Consistently use pdev as the variable of type struct pci_dev *.
Update DMA mapping documentation to use 'pdev' rather than 'dev' in
example code that calls routines expecting 'struct pci_device *', since 'dev'
might make readers think they're passing 'struct device *' parameters.
Bug 10397.

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-04-28 09:48:24 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
1ae43f826b fat: Add allow_utime option
Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of the file, or it
has CAP_FOWNER capability.  But FAT filesystem doesn't have uid/gid as
on disk info, so normal check is too unflexible.

With this option you can relax it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
Dan Williams
8b3e6cdc53 md: introduce get_priority_stripe() to improve raid456 write performance
Improve write performance by preventing the delayed_list from dumping all its
stripes onto the handle_list in one shot.  Delayed stripes are now further
delayed by being held on the 'hold_list'.  The 'hold_list' is bypassed when:

  * a STRIPE_IO_STARTED stripe is found at the head of 'handle_list'
  * 'handle_list' is empty and i/o is being done to satisfy full stripe-width
    write requests
  * 'bypass_count' is less than 'bypass_threshold'.  By default the threshold
    is 1, i.e. every other stripe handled is a preread stripe provided the
    top two conditions are false.

Benchmark data:
System: 2x Xeon 5150, 4x SATA, mem=1GB
Baseline: 2.6.24-rc7
Configuration: mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-e] -n 4 -l 5 --assume-clean
Test1: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048
  * patched:  +33% (stripe_cache_size = 256), +25% (stripe_cache_size = 512)

Test2: tiobench --size 2048 --numruns 5 --block 4096 --block 131072 (XFS)
  * patched: +13%
  * patched + preread_bypass_threshold = 0: +37%

Changes since v1:
* reduce bypass_threshold from (chunk_size / sectors_per_chunk) to (1) and
  make it configurable.  This defaults to fairness and modest performance
  gains out of the box.
Changes since v2:
* [neilb@suse.de]: kill STRIPE_PRIO_HI and preread_needed as they are not
  necessary, the important change was clearing STRIPE_DELAYED in
  add_stripe_bio and this has been moved out to make_request for the hang
  fix.
* [neilb@suse.de]: simplify get_priority_stripe
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: reset the bypass_count when ->hold_list is
  sampled empty (+11%)
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: decrement the bypass_count at the detection
  of stripes being naturally promoted off of hold_list +2%.  Note, resetting
  bypass_count instead of decrementing on these events yields +4% but that is
  probably too aggressive.
Changes since v3:
* cosmetic fixups

Tested-by: James W. Laferriere <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:42 -07:00
Maik Broemme
0e170c72c0 fbdev: intelfb: add support for the Intel Integrated Graphics Controller 965G/965GM
Add support for the 965G and 965GM graphic chipsets to the intelfb driver.  I
have a notebook with an Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
Controller and with the attached patch the framebuffer comes up.  I have
tested it a bit with DirectFB to make sure it is working stable.

I also have an Intel Mobile GM945 and I compared the results, the programming
interface of the 9xx series from Intel is mostly the same, so I think the
patch should add all the functionality which the 945GM has.

Signed-off-by: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@plusserver.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:41 -07:00
Jaya Kumar
03c33a4f00 fbdev: platforming metronomefb and am200epd
This patch splits metronomefb into the platform independent metronomefb and
the platform dependent am200epd.

Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
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>
2008-04-28 08:58:41 -07:00
York Sun
9b53a9e28a fbdev: powerpc: driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIU
The following features are supported:
plane 0 works as a regular frame buffer, can be accessed by /dev/fb0
plane 1 has two AOIs (area of interest), can be accessed by /dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2
plane 2 has two AOIs, can be accessed by /dev/fb3 and /dev/fb4
Special ioctls support AOIs

All /dev/fb* can be used as regular frame buffer devices, except hardware
change can only be made through /dev/fb0.  Changing pixel clock has no effect
on other fbs.

Limitation of usage of AOIs:
AOIs on the same plane can not be horizonally overlapped
AOIs have horizonal order, i.e. AOI0 should be always on top of AOI1
AOIs can not beyond phisical display area. Application should check AOI geometry
before changing physical resolution on /dev/fb0

required command line parameters to preallocate memory for frame buffer diufb.

optional command line parameters to set modes and monitor
video=fslfb:[resolution][,bpp][,monitor]
Syntax:

Resolution
xres x yres-bpp@refresh_rate, the -bpp and @refresh_rate are optional
eg, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x1024-32, 1280x1024@60, 1280x1024-32@60, 1280x480-32@60

Bpp
bpp=32, bpp=24, or bpp=16

Monitor
monitor=0, monitor=1, monitor=2
0 is DVI
1 is Single link LVDS
2 is Double link LVDS

Note: switching monitor is a board feather, not DIU feather. MPC8610HPCD has three
monitor ports to swtich to. MPC5121ADS doesn't have additional monitor port. So switching
monirot port for MPC5121ADS has no effect.

If compiled as a module, it takes pamameters mode, bpp, monitor with the same syntax above.

Signed-off-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:40 -07:00
Andres Salomon
564820d42a lxfb: disable suspend VT switch by default
By default disable VT switch, but allow it to be overridden via the
'vt_switch' module arg.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:39 -07:00
Andres Salomon
c805df3d62 lxfb: rename kernel arg fbsize to vram
Match other fb drivers (including gxfb).  Also, document the current boot
arguments in Documentation/fb/lxfb.txt.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:39 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt
cf6d880c35 update modedb.txt documentation about mode_option parameter change
Add names of drivers converted to "mode_option" parameter.

This is one step toward changing all fb drivers to have common "mode_option"
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:37 -07:00
Andres Salomon
b6f448e99c PM/gxfb: add hook to PM console layer that allows disabling of suspend VT switch
Prior to suspend, we allocate and switch to a new VT; after suspend, we switch
back to the original VT.  This can be slow, and is completely unnecessary if
the framebuffer we're using can restore video properly.

This adds a hook that allows drivers to select whether or not to do this vt
switch, and changes the gxfb driver to call this hook.  It also adds a module
param to gxfb to allow controlling of the vt switch (defaulting to no switch).

(Note: I'm not convinced that console_sem is the best way to protect this, but
we should probably have some form of locking..)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:36 -07:00
Andres Salomon
fa20c8a6e5 gxfb: replace FBSIZE config option with a module parameter
Use a command line option (vram) rather than hardcoding the vram size.  LxFB
already does this; it's useful for machines that can't query the BIOS for fb
size.  This patch originated from David Woodhouse, was modified by Jordan
Crouse, and was then modified further by me.

This also adds some gxfb documentation in Documentation/fb.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:36 -07:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
e6de1808f8 gpio: define gpio_is_valid()
Introduce a gpio_is_valid() predicate; use it in gpiolib.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>
    [ use inline function; follow the gpio_* naming convention;
      work without gpiolib; all programming interfaces need docs ]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:34 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3b0cb4caef kprobes: update document about batch registration
Add the description of batch registration interfaces to
Documentation/kprobes.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
31a1629426 documentation: move spidev_fdx example to its own source file
Move sample source code to its own source file so that it can be used
easier and build-tested/check/maintained by anyone.

(Makefile changes are in a separate patch for all of Documentation/.)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:31 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
fc36b8d3d8 mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy
Now that we're using "preferred local" policy for system default, we need to
make this as fast as possible.  Because of the variable size of the mempolicy
structure [based on size of nodemasks], the preferred_node may be in a
different cacheline from the mode.  This can result in accessing an extra
cacheline in the normal case of system default policy.  Suspect this is the
cause of an observed 2-3% slowdown in page fault testing relative to kernel
without this patch series.

To alleviate this, use an internal mode flag, MPOL_F_LOCAL in the mempolicy
flags member which is guaranteed [?] to be in the same cacheline as the mode
itself.

Verified that reworked mempolicy now performs slightly better on 25-rc8-mm1
for both anon and shmem segments with system default and vma [preferred local]
policy.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
bea904d54d mempolicy: use MPOL_PREFERRED for system-wide default policy
Currently, when one specifies MPOL_DEFAULT via a NUMA memory policy API
[set_mempolicy(), mbind() and internal versions], the kernel simply installs a
NULL struct mempolicy pointer in the appropriate context: task policy, vma
policy, or shared policy.  This causes any use of that policy to "fall back"
to the next most specific policy scope.

The only use of MPOL_DEFAULT to mean "local allocation" is in the system
default policy.  This requires extra checks/cases for MPOL_DEFAULT in many
mempolicy.c functions.

There is another, "preferred" way to specify local allocation via the APIs.
That is using the MPOL_PREFERRED policy mode with an empty nodemask.
Internally, the empty nodemask gets converted to a preferred_node id of '-1'.
All internal usage of MPOL_PREFERRED will convert the '-1' to the id of the
node local to the cpu where the allocation occurs.

System default policy, except during boot, is hard-coded to "local
allocation".  By using the MPOL_PREFERRED mode with a negative value of
preferred node for system default policy, MPOL_DEFAULT will never occur in the
'policy' member of a struct mempolicy.  Thus, we can remove all checks for
MPOL_DEFAULT when converting policy to a node id/zonelist in the allocation
paths.

In slab_node() return local node id when policy pointer is NULL.  No need to
set a pol value to take the switch default.  Replace switch default with
BUG()--i.e., shouldn't happen.

With this patch MPOL_DEFAULT is only used in the APIs, including internal
calls to do_set_mempolicy() and in the display of policy in
/proc/<pid>/numa_maps.  It always means "fall back" to the the next most
specific policy scope.  This simplifies the description of memory policies
quite a bit, with no visible change in behavior.

get_mempolicy() continues to return MPOL_DEFAULT and an empty nodemask when
the requested policy [task or vma/shared] is NULL.  These are the values one
would supply via set_mempolicy() or mbind() to achieve that condition--default
behavior.

This patch updates Documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
52cd3b0740 mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again]
After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
fast paths.  In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
unref for interleave policies.

A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.

This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
simplifies the code.  Maybe I'll get it right this time.

See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.

Summary:

Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
policies.  So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
counting added by my previous attempt.  It then unrefs only shared policies
when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
helper function introduced by this patch.

Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
containing just the policy.  read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
this case.  To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy.  This copy occurs before reading
a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
here.

I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
conditional free.  The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
45c4745af3 mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode'
The terms 'policy' and 'mode' are both used in various places to describe the
semantics of the value stored in the 'policy' member of struct mempolicy.
Furthermore, the term 'policy' is used to refer to that member, to the entire
struct mempolicy and to the more abstract concept of the tuple consisting of a
"mode" and an optional node or set of nodes.  Recently, we have added "mode
flags" that are passed in the upper bits of the 'mode' [or sometimes,
'policy'] member of the numa APIs.

I'd like to resolve this confusion, which perhaps only exists in my mind, by
renaming the 'policy' member to 'mode' throughout, and fixing up the
Documentation.  Man pages will be updated separately.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
David Rientjes
3e1f064562 mempolicy: disallow static or relative flags for local preferred mode
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES and MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES don't mean anything for
MPOL_PREFERRED policies that were created with an empty nodemask (for purely
local allocations).  They'll never be invalidated because the allowed mems of
a task changes or need to be rebound relative to a cpuset's placement.

Also fixes a bug identified by Lee Schermerhorn that disallowed empty
nodemasks to be passed to MPOL_PREFERRED to specify local allocations.  [A
different, somewhat incomplete, patch already existed in 25-rc5-mm1.]

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
David Rientjes
65d66fc02e mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00