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Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Commit 6bfff31e77cfa1b13490337e5a4dbaa3407e83ac (libata: kill probe_ent
and related helpers) killed ata_device_add() but didn't remove references
to it from the libata developer's guide.
Commits 9363c3825ea9ad76561eb48a395349dd29211ed6 (libata: rename SFF
functions) and 5682ed33aae05d10a25c95633ef9d9c062825888 (libata: rename
SFF port ops) renamed the taskfile access methods but didn't update the
developer's guide. Commit c9f75b04ed5ed65a058d18a8a8dda50632a96de8
(libata: kill ata_noop_dev_select()) didn't update the developer's
guide as well.
The guide also refers to the long gone ata_pio_data_xfer_noirq(),
ata_pio_data_xfer(), and ata_mmio_data_xfer() -- replace those by
the modern ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq(), ata_sff_data_xfer(), and
ata_sff_data_xfer32().
Also, remove the reference to non-existant ata_port_stop()...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: joydev - allow binding to button-only devices
Input: elantech - ignore high bits in the position coordinates
Input: elantech - allow forcing Elantech protocol
Input: elantech - fix firmware version check
Input: ati_remote - add some missing devices from lirc_atiusb
Input: eeti_ts - cancel pending work when going to suspend
Input: Add support of Synaptics Clickpad device
Revert "Input: ALPS - add signature for HP Pavilion dm3 laptops"
Input: psmouse - ignore parity error for basic protocols
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After discovering that a lot of i2c-drivers leave the pointer to their
clientdata dangling, it was decided to let the core handle this issue.
It is assumed that the core may access the private data after remove()
as there are no guarantees for the lifetime of such pointers anyhow (see
thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/21/68)
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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In older versions of the elantech hardware/firmware those bits always
were unset, so it didn't actually matter, but newer versions seem to
use those high bits for something else, screwing up the coordinates
we report to the input layer for those devices.
Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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* 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer
omap2_mcspi: small fixes of output data format
omap2_mcspi: Flush posted writes
spi: spi_device memory should be released instead of device.
spi: release device claimed by bus_find_device_by_name
of: check for IS_ERR()
serial/mpc52xx_uart: Drop outdated comments
gpio: potential null dereference
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Merge reason: update to the latest -rc.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The sample application spidev_test.c is using SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to do
an SPI transfer. This ioctl returns the number of bytes successfully
transmitted or a negative error code upon erroneous completion. The
application however is returning an error if the result of the ioclt if
the return value is 1. This makes the application to fail upon 1-byte
length transfers.
Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Writing to cgroup.procs is not supported now.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to latest -rc.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata: ensure NCQ error result taskfile is fully initialized before returning it via qc->result_tf.
libata: fix docs, RE port and device of libata.force ID separated by point
pata_pcmcia/ide-cs: add IDs for transcend and kingston cards
libata: fix locking around blk_abort_request()
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According to libata-core correctly around line 6572:
/* parse id */
p = strchr(id, '.');
...
the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID
by a point or dot instead of by a colon.
Fix documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Update git home page info.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It is a hard requirement to include the upstream commit ID in the
changelog of a -stable submission, not just a courtesy to the stable
team. This concerns only mail submission though, which is no longer
the only way into stable. (Also, fix a double "the".)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable
rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
rcu: Better explain the condition parameter of rcu_dereference_check()
rcu: Add rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/gart: Disable GART explicitly before initialization
dma-debug: Cleanup for copy-loop in filter_write()
x86/amd-iommu: Remove obsolete parameter documentation
x86/amd-iommu: use for_each_pci_dev
Revert "x86: disable IOMMUs on kernel crash"
x86/amd-iommu: warn when issuing command to uninitialized cmd buffer
x86/amd-iommu: enable iommu before attaching devices
x86/amd-iommu: Use helper function to destroy domain
x86/amd-iommu: Report errors in acpi parsing functions upstream
x86/amd-iommu: Pt mode fix for domain_destroy
x86/amd-iommu: Protect IOMMU-API map/unmap path
x86/amd-iommu: Remove double NULL check in check_device
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: wacom - switch mode upon system resume
Revert "Input: wacom - merge out and in prox events"
Input: matrix_keypad - allow platform to disable key autorepeat
Input: ALPS - add signature for HP Pavilion dm3 laptops
Input: i8042 - spelling fix
Input: sparse-keymap - implement safer freeing of the keymap
Input: update the status of the Multitouch X driver project
Input: clarify the no-finger event in multitouch protocol
Input: bcm5974 - retract efi-broken suspend_resume
Input: sparse-keymap - free the right keymap on error
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Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in
kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on
each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as
unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent).
e.g.
echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events
adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the
entry of account_system_time.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Update examples and lists of APIs to include these new
primitives.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1270852752-25278-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
cciss: unlock on error path
cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
paride: fix off-by-one test
drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
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Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The current documentation for hardware time stamping does not
correctly specify the available kernel functions since the
implementation was changed later on.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Loschmidt <Patrick.Loschmidt@oeaw.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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: mixart: range checking proc file
ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong array range check in patch_realtek.c
ALSA: ASoC: move dma_data from snd_soc_dai to snd_soc_pcm_stream
ALSA: hda - Enable amplifiers on Acer Inspire 6530G
ASoC: Only do WM8994 bias off transition from standby
ASoC: Don't use DCS_DATAPATH_BUSY for WM hubs devices
ASoC: Don't do runtime wm_hubs DC servo updates if using offset correction
ASoC: Support second DC servo readback method for wm_hubs
ASoC: Avoid wraparound in wm_hubs DC servo correction
ALSA: echoaudio - Eliminate use after free
ALSA: i2c: cleanup: change parameter to pointer
ALSA: hda - Add MSI blacklist for Aopen MZ915-M
ASoC: OMAP: Fix capture pointer handling for OMAP1510 to work correctly with recent ALSA PCM code
ALSA: hda - Update document about MSI and interrupts
ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB offset for Lenovo Thinkpad models using AD1981
ALSA: hda - Add missing printk argument in previous patch
ASoC: Fix passing platform_data to ac97 bus users and fix a leak
ALSA: hda - Fix ADC/MUX assignment of ALC269 codec
ALSA: hda - Fix invalid bit values passed to snd_hda_codec_amp_stereo()
ASoC: wm8994: playback => capture
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Rename imacfb.txt to efifb.txt since imacfb was moved to efifb,and change
imacfb to efifb.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] hpwdt - fix lower timeout limit
[WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt: TCO Watchdog patch for additional Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
[WATCHDOG] doc: Fix use of WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl.
[WATCHDOG] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync()
[WATCHDOG] set max63xx driver as ARM only
[WATCHDOG] powerpc: pika_wdt ident cannot be const
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
smc91c92_cs: fix the problem of "Unable to find hardware address"
r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile
cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile
cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management
cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code
cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code
cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
netlabel: Fix several rcu_dereference() calls used without RCU read locks
bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()
net: check the length of the socket address passed to connect(2)
stmmac: add documentation for the driver.
stmmac: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
be2net: fix bug in vlan rx path for big endian architecture
be2net: fix flashing on big endian architectures
be2net: fix a bug in flashing the redboot section
bonding: bond_xmit_roundrobin() fix
drivers/net: Add missing unlock
net: gianfar - align BD ring size console messages
net: gianfar - initialize per-queue statistics
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In the watchdog-test program and watchdog-api.txt, pass the values to
the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl as a pointer to an integer containing the
values intead of directly in the third ioctl argument. The actual
watchdog drivers in drivers/watchdog don't read the options directly
from the argument but use get_user and copy_from_user.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
9p: saving negative to unsigned char
9p: return on mutex_lock_interruptible()
9p: Creating files with names too long should fail with ENAMETOOLONG.
9p: Make sure we are able to clunk the cached fid on umount
9p: drop nlink remove
fs/9p: Clunk the fid resulting from partial walk of the name
9p: documentation update
9p: Fix setting of protocol flags in v9fs_session_info structure.
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This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in
2.6.34.
Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Don't terminate the watchdog daemon when fsync() fails because no
watchdog driver actually implements the fsync() syscall.
Signed-off-by: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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* 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
powerpc/5200: in lpbfifo, flag DMA irqs as enabled after requesting them
powerpc/fsl: add device tree binding for QE firmware
of/flattree: Fix unhandled OF_DT_NOP tag when unflattening the device tree
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt for the
stmmac network driver.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (28 commits)
ceph: update discussion list address in MAINTAINERS
ceph: some documentations fixes
ceph: fix use after free on mds __unregister_request
ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documention
ceph: fix possible double-free of mds request reference
ceph: fix session check on mds reply
ceph: handle kmalloc() failure
ceph: propagate mds session allocation failures to caller
ceph: make write_begin wait propagate ERESTARTSYS
ceph: fix snap rebuild condition
ceph: avoid reopening osd connections when address hasn't changed
ceph: rename r_sent_stamp r_stamp
ceph: fix connection fault con_work reentrancy problem
ceph: prevent dup stale messages to console for restarting mds
ceph: fix pg pool decoding from incremental osdmap update
ceph: fix mds sync() race with completing requests
ceph: only release unused caps with mds requests
ceph: clean up handle_cap_grant, handle_caps wrt session mutex
ceph: fix session locking in handle_caps, ceph_check_caps
ceph: drop unnecessary WARN_ON in caps migration
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New documentation should have an entry in the 00-INDEX. Correct git
urls.
Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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Define a binding for embedding a QE firmware blob into the device tree. Also
define a new property for the QE node that links to a firmware node.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Document the circular buffering capabilities available in Linux.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added
new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation.
This patch does it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch renames PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt.
The commit 51e7364ef281e540371f084008732b13292622f0 "Documentation: rename
PCI-DMA-mapping.txt to DMA-API-HOWTO.txt" was supposed to do this but it
didn't.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Update memory.txt to be more consistent: s/swapiness/swappiness/
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cpu_relax() is documented in volatile-considered-harmful.txt to be a
memory barrier. However, everyone with the exception of Blackfin and
possibly ia64 defines cpu_relax() to be a compiler barrier.
Make the documentation reflect the general concensus.
Linus sayeth:
: I don't think it was ever the intention that it would be seen as anything
: but a compiler barrier, although it is obviously implied that it might
: well perform some per-architecture actions that have "memory barrier-like"
: semantics.
:
: After all, the whole and only point of the "cpu_relax()" thing is to tell
: the CPU that we're busy-looping on some event.
:
: And that "event" might be (and often is) about reading the same memory
: location over and over until it changes to what we want it to be. So it's
: quite possible that on various architectures the "cpu_relax()" could be
: about making sure that such a tight loop on loads doesn't starve cache
: transactions, for example - and as such look a bit like a memory barrier
: from a CPU standpoint.
:
: But it's not meant to have any kind of architectural memory ordering
: semantics as far as the kernel is concerned - those must come from other
: sources.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'OSD' means different things to different people; avoid it here to avoid
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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Merge reason: Pick up latest perf fixes from upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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