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2008-04-29docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)Randy Dunlap1-1/+0
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>
2008-04-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds2-1/+36
* 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 ...
2008-04-29V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chipHans Verkuil1-0/+34
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>
2008-04-29V4L/DVB (7766): saa7134: add another PCI ID for Beholder M6Igor Kuznetsov1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Igor Kuznetsov <igk@igk.ru> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-04-29V4L/DVB (7765): Add support for Beholder BeholdTV H6Igor Kuznetsov1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Igor Kuznetsov <igk@igk.ru> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-04-29i2c: Add support for device alias namesJean Delvare1-1/+2
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>
2008-04-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-19/+19
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 ...
2008-04-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
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[ALSA] hda - Add support of Medion RIM 2150Takashi Iwai1-0/+1
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>
2008-04-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+10
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
2008-04-29doc: replace yet another dev with pdev for consistency in DMA-mapping.txtMatti Linnanvuori1-1/+1
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>
2008-04-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds1-0/+14
* 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
2008-04-29edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}Tim Gardner1-2/+1
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>
2008-04-29keys: make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sysDavid Howells1-1/+23
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>
2008-04-29keys: add keyctl function to get a security labelDavid Howells1-0/+21
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>
2008-04-29keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a stringDavid Howells2-9/+16
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>
2008-04-29doc: fix DMA-API function parametersRandy Dunlap1-2/+2
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>
2008-04-29dma: document dma_*map*_attrs() interfacesArthur Kepner2-0/+89
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>
2008-04-29Cpuset hardwall flag: add a mem_hardwall flag to cpusetsPaul Menage1-12/+14
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>
2008-04-29memcgroups: add a document describing the resource counter abstractionPavel Emelyanov1-0/+181
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>
2008-04-29cgroups: simplify init_subsys()Li Zefan1-2/+1
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>
2008-04-29cgroups: implement device whitelistSerge E. Hallyn1-0/+48
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>
2008-04-29x86: olpc: add One Laptop Per Child architecture supportAndres Salomon1-0/+7
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>
2008-04-29sysrq: add show-backtrace-on-all-cpus functionRik van Riel1-0/+2
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>
2008-04-29Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)Nur Hussein1-0/+4
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>
2008-04-29x86: add more boot protocol documentationIan Campbell1-2/+10
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>
2008-04-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2-8/+11
* 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
2008-04-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-16/+11
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.
2008-04-28kconifg: 'select' considered less evilMatthew Wilcox1-8/+9
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>
2008-04-28dontdiff: ignore timeconst.hBen Dooks1-0/+1
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>
2008-04-28dontdiff: add modules.orderBen Dooks1-0/+1
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[CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interfaceDarrick J. Wong1-0/+14
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>
2008-04-28docbook: fix bitops fatal filename errorRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
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>
2008-04-28doc: fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL for PCI like busesMatti Linnanvuori1-3/+3
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>
2008-04-28Consistently use pdev as the variable of type struct pci_dev *.Matti Linnanvuori1-16/+16
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>
2008-04-28fat: Add allow_utime optionOGAWA Hirofumi1-0/+15
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>
2008-04-28md: introduce get_priority_stripe() to improve raid456 write performanceDan Williams1-0/+6
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>
2008-04-28fbdev: intelfb: add support for the Intel Integrated Graphics Controller ↵Maik Broemme1-0/+2
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>
2008-04-28fbdev: platforming metronomefb and am200epdJaya Kumar1-9/+7
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>
2008-04-28fbdev: powerpc: driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIUYork Sun1-0/+33
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>
2008-04-28lxfb: disable suspend VT switch by defaultAndres Salomon1-0/+2
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>
2008-04-28lxfb: rename kernel arg fbsize to vramAndres Salomon1-0/+50
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>
2008-04-28update modedb.txt documentation about mode_option parameter changeKrzysztof Helt1-0/+4
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>
2008-04-28PM/gxfb: add hook to PM console layer that allows disabling of suspend VT switchAndres Salomon1-1/+2
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>
2008-04-28gxfb: replace FBSIZE config option with a module parameterAndres Salomon1-0/+51
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>
2008-04-28gpio: define gpio_is_valid()Guennadi Liakhovetski1-0/+10
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>
2008-04-28kprobes: update document about batch registrationMasami Hiramatsu1-4/+47
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>
2008-04-28documentation: move spidev_fdx example to its own source fileRandy Dunlap2-166/+160
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>
2008-04-28mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local PolicyLee Schermerhorn1-6/+5
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>
2008-04-28mempolicy: use MPOL_PREFERRED for system-wide default policyLee Schermerhorn1-36/+18
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>
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