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Francesco Fondelli f0e82fd0e5 [PKTGEN]: Documentation update
Signed-off-by: Francesco Fondelli <francesco.fondelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:01:48 -07:00
Jean Delvare 3379ceeefd hwmon: Remove Yuan Mu's address
hwmon: Remove Yuan Mu's address

Yuan Mu no longer works at Winbond.

I wish to publicly thank Yuan for his help with Winbond hardware
monitoring chips support during the past 10 months.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:19 -07:00
Juerg Haefliger a1fdcb96ee vt1211: Document module parameters
vt1211: Document module parameters

Add a description of the module parameters to the documentation of
the vt1211 driver.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:16 -07:00
Juerg Haefliger 61d0b53363 vt1211: Add documentation
vt1211: Add documentation

Add documentation for the new vt1211 hardware monitoring driver.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:16 -07:00
Charles Spirakis 125751cb83 w83791d: Documentation update
w83791d: Documentation update

The alarm bits and the beep enable bits are in different positions in
the hardware. Document the problem and leave it to the user-space code
to handle the situation. When this driver is updated to the standardized
sysfs alarm/beep methodology, this won't be a problem.

This is a documentation only change.

Signed-off by: Charles Spirakis <bezaur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:16 -07:00
Rudolf Marek ef4c4fdb28 k8temp: Add documentation
k8temp: Add documentation

Add promised documentation for the k8temp driver.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:14 -07:00
Jean Delvare b19367c6f4 it87: Copyright update
it87: Copyright update

I think my contributions to the it87 driver over the past two
years qualify me as a co-author of this driver.

Also drop old comments of dubious usefulness.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:13 -07:00
Jean Delvare 87673dd735 it87: Add support for the IT8718F
it87: Add support for the IT8718F

The IT8718F is a Super-I/O chip with integrated hardware monitoring
functions. It is very similar to the IT8716F, so adding support to the
it87 driver was pretty straightforward. The most significant difference
is that the IT8718F has up to 8 VID pins, instead of 6 for the older
chips.

For the IT8718F, the VID value can only be read from Super-I/O space.

Userspace support is already in lm_sensors SVN (to be soon released
as 2.10.1.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:13 -07:00
Jean Delvare 17d648bf57 it87: Add support for the IT8716F
it87: Add support for the IT8716F

The IT8716F is a Super-I/O chip with integrated hardware monitoring
functions. It is very similar to the IT8712F, so adding support to the
it87 driver was pretty straightforward. The most significant change here
is that the IT8716F has 16-bit fan speed counters, so the user no more
needs to tweak the fan clock dividers to get the best readings.

Userspace support is already in lm_sensors SVN (to be soon released
as 2.10.1.)

Thanks to Stian Oksavik, Olivier Nicolas, Prakash Punnoor and
Juergen Kilb for testing the early versions of this patch.

Thanks also to ITE for providing datasheets and answering my questions.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:13 -07:00
Rudolf Marek 563daaf404 hwmon: Documentation update for w83627ehf
Add documentation for the w83627ehf hardware monitoring driver.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-28 15:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a77c64c1a6 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (48 commits)
  [PATCH] bonding: update version number
  [PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix
  [PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again
  [PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC
  [PATCH] more s2io __iomem annotations
  [PATCH] restore __iomem annotations in e1000
  [PATCH] 64bit bugs in s2io
  [PATCH] bonding: Fix primary selection error at enslavement time
  [PATCH] bonding: Don't mangle LACPDUs
  [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
  [PATCH] bonding: Don't release slaves when master is admin down
  [PATCH] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling
  [PATCH] bonding: Handle large hard_header_len
  [PATCH] bonding: Remove unneeded NULL test
  [PATCH] bonding: Format fix in seq_printf call
  [PATCH] bonding: Convert delay value from s16 to int
  [PATCH] bonding: Allow bonding to enslave a 10 Gig adapter
  Delete unused drivers/net/gt64240eth.h
  [PATCH] skge: fiber support
  [PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth
  ...
2006-09-27 14:41:24 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev 38e2bfc94e USB: Dealias -110 code (more complete)
The purpose of this patch is to split off the case when a device does
not reply on the lower level (which is reported by HC hardware), and
a case when the device accepted the request, but does not reply at
upper level. This redefinition allows to diagnose issues easier,
without asking the user if the -110 happened "immediately".

The usbmon splits such cases already thanks to its timestamp, but
it's not always available.

I adjusted all drivers which I found affected (by searching for "urb").
Out of tree drivers may suffer a little bit, but I do not expect much
breakage. At worst they may print a few messages.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:59:00 -07:00
Steven Haigh 03270634e2 USB: Add ADU support for Ontrak ADU devices
This patch adds support for Ontrak ADU USB devices.

Fixed for printk issues by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Signed-off-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:58:59 -07:00
Manuel Francisco Naranjo 3fe70ba227 Add AIRcable USB Bluetooth Dongle Driver
Add driver for AIRcable USB Bluetooth dongle.

Signed-off-by: Naranjo, Manuel Francisco <naranjo.manuel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:58:59 -07:00
Sam Bishop 06afff00bc USB doc patch 2
A little more detail on how and when to poll() /proc/bus/usb/devices.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bishop <sam@bishop.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:58:48 -07:00
Sam Bishop 3413232692 USB: doc patch 1
Grammar, spelling, and stylistic edits.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bishop <sam@bishop.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:58:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b98adfccdf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (108 commits)
  sh: Fix occasional flush_cache_4096() stack corruption.
  sh: Calculate shm alignment at runtime.
  sh: dma-mapping compile fixes.
  sh: Initial vsyscall page support.
  sh: Clean up PAGE_SIZE definition for assembly use.
  sh: Selective flush_cache_mm() flushing.
  sh: More intelligent entry_mask/way_size calculation.
  sh: Support for L2 cache on newer SH-4A CPUs.
  sh: Update kexec support for API changes.
  sh: Optimized readsl()/writesl() support.
  sh: Report movli.l/movco.l capabilities.
  sh: CPU flags in AT_HWCAP in ELF auxvt.
  sh: Add support for 4K stacks.
  sh: Enable /proc/kcore support.
  sh: stack debugging support.
  sh: select CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
  sh: machvec rework.
  sh: Solution Engine SH7343 board support.
  sh: SH7710VoIPGW board support.
  sh: Enable verbose BUG() support.
  ...
2006-09-27 08:49:07 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 35fa2048ab [PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:19 -07:00
Vivek Goyal 7e96287ddc [PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option
Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices).  This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.

This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment.  For ex.  during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
David Howells 930e652a21 [PATCH] NOMMU: Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions
Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions.

This can be tested by running this in one shell:

	#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
		do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)

	int main()
	{
		int shmid, tmp, *f, n;

		shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
		SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");

		f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(f, "shmat");

		n = *f;
		printf("WAIT: %p{%x}\n", f, n);
		tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAIT, n, NULL, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
		printf("WAITED: %d\n", tmp);

		tmp = shmdt(f);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");

		exit(0);
	}

And then this in the other shell:

	#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
		do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)

	int main()
	{
		int shmid, tmp, *f;

		shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
		SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");

		f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(f, "shmat");

		(*f)++;
		printf("WAKE: %p{%x}\n", f, *f);
		tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
		printf("WOKE: %d\n", tmp);

		tmp = shmdt(f);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");

		exit(0);
	}

The first program will set up a SYSV IPC SHM segment and wait on a futex in it
for the number at the start to change.  The program will increment that number
and wake the first program up.  This leads to output of the form:

	SHELL 1			SHELL 2
	=======================	=======================
	# /dowait
	WAIT: 0xc32ac000{0}
				# /dowake
				WAKE: 0xc32ac000{1}
	WAITED: 0		WOKE: 1

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
David Howells 0112c4c646 [PATCH] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memory
Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells 6fa5f80bc3 [PATCH] NOMMU: Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels
Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels.  It may resize a VMA provided
that it doesn't exceed the size of the slab object in which the storage is
allocated that the VMA refers to.  Shareable VMAs may not be resized.

Moving VMAs (as permitted by MREMAP_MAYMOVE) is not currently supported.

This patch also makes use of the fact that the VMA list is now ordered to cut
it short when possible.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells dbf8685c8e [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU
Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU by reading the vm_area_list attached to
current->mm->context.vmlist.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a5b08073a0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (30 commits)
  i2c: Drop unimplemented slave functions
  i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 2
  i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 1
  i2c: Let drivers constify i2c_algorithm data
  i2c-isa: Restore driver owner
  i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
  i2c: Warn on i2c client creation failure
  i2c-core: Drop useless bitmaskings
  i2c-algo-pcf: Discard the mdelay data struct member
  i2c-algo-bit: Cleanups
  i2c-isa: Fail adding driver on attach_adapter error
  i2c: __must_check fixes (chip drivers)
  i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups
  i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter
  i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
  i2c: New bus driver for TI OMAP boards
  i2c-algo-bit: Discard the mdelay data struct member
  i2c-matroxfb: Struct init conversion
  i2c: Fix copy-n-paste in subsystem Kconfig
  i2c-au1550: Add I2C support for Au1200
  ...
2006-09-27 08:09:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ff0972c26b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (28 commits)
  pciehp - fix wrong return value
  IA64: PCI: dont disable irq which is not enabled
  acpiphp: add support for ioapic hot-remove
  PCI: assign ioapic resource at hotplug
  acpiphp: disable bridges
  acpiphp: stop bus device before acpi_bus_trim
  PCI: add pci_stop_bus_device
  acpiphp: do not initialize existing ioapics
  acpiphp: initialize ioapics before starting devices
  acpiphp: set hpp values before starting devices
  PCI Hotplug: cleanup pcihp skeleton code.
  PCI: Restore PCI Express capability registers after PM event
  PCI: drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c: make a function static
  PCI: Multiprobe sanitizer
  PCI: fix __must_check warnings
  PCI Hotplug: fix __must_check warnings
  SHPCHP: fix __must_check warnings
  PCI-Express AER implemetation: pcie_portdrv error handler
  PCI-Express AER implemetation: AER core and aerdriver
  PCI-Express AER implemetation: export pcie_port_bus_type
  ...
2006-09-27 08:09:15 -07:00
Ralf Baechle d48f1de2d8 [MIPS] Remove EV96100 as previously announced.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-09-27 13:37:55 +01:00
Paul Mundt 801e045860 sh: Update new-machine.txt so it's more accurate.
This fell behind a bit, get it updated so the documentation
has something in common with reality.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 16:15:48 +09:00
Paul Mundt f151749440 sh: Cleanup and document register bank usage.
Initial register bank cleanup. Make SR.RB configurable, and add some
preliminary documentation on register bank usage within the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 16:01:12 +09:00
Zhang, Yanmin 47402400c6 PCI-Express AER implemetation: aer howto document
PCI-Express AER (Advanced Error Reporting) provides more robust error reporting.
The series of patches enable kernel support to AER.

The initial patches were written by Tom Long Nguyen. I ported them to the kernel
2.6.18-rc3. Many thanks to Rajesh Shah and Narayanan Chandramouli for their great
review comments and testing help.

Patch 1 consists of the pciaer-howto.txt document.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-26 17:43:52 -07:00
Rudolf Marek c243353a90 i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251

Documentation update included. Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-26 15:38:52 -07:00
Jean Delvare 7a8d29cec7 i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter
i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter

Add a mandatory chip_addr parameter to i2c-stub. This parameter
defines to which chip address the driver will respond, instead of
reponding to all addresses as before. The idea is to prevent the
users from loading i2c-stub at random and being then confused by
the results of sensors-detect or other user-space tools.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-26 15:38:51 -07:00
Jean Delvare 6c805d2ce9 i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal

i2c-isa doesn't make much sense in the device driver model. Drivers
relying on it are better implemented as platform drivers. We must
wait for recent versions of libsensors (2.10.0 or later) to be widely
deployed beforehand, though. This move should also make it easier to
convert i2c-core to the device driver model.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-26 15:38:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b278240839 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
  [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
  [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
  [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
  [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
  [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
  [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
  [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
  [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
  [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
  [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
  [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
  [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
  [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
  [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
  [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
  [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
  [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
  ...
2006-09-26 13:07:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds dd77a4ee0f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits)
  Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
  Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core
  Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core
  PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe
  Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe
  sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype
  drivers/base: check errors
  drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
  v4l-dev2: handle __must_check
  add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
  add __must_check to device management code
  Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition
  Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c
  sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error
  kobject: must_check fixes
  Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files
  Class: add support for class interfaces for devices
  Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
  Driver core: add device_rename function
  Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly
  ...
2006-09-26 11:49:46 -07:00
Jeff Garzik c226951b93 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-09-26 13:13:19 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki c5c6ba4e08 [PATCH] PM: Add pm_trace switch
Add the pm_trace attribute in /sys/power which has to be explicitly set to
one to really enable the "PM tracing" code compiled in when CONFIG_PM_TRACE
is set (which modifies the machine's CMOS clock in unpredictable ways).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:49:04 -07:00
Zachary Amsden 461a9afff5 [PATCH] x86: add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space
Add a boot parameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which might
not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a useful tool
to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address space.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:55 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 0ff38490c8 [PATCH] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaim
Currently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in
/proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode.  Slab reclaim is then used as a final
option if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free
enough pages to allow a local allocation.

However, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory
of a node may be used by slabs.  We have had a case where a machine with
46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab.  Zone reclaim was effective in
dealing with pagecache pages.  However, slab reclaim was only done during
global reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems).

This patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim.  Zone reclaim
occurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation.  At that point we

1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache
   pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone.

2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages
   (patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter)
   are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable).

The shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node
specific.  So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach
(current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be
allocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is
unsuccessful or we have reached the limit.  I hope we will have zone based
slab reclaim at some point which will make that easier.

The default for the min_slab_ratio is 5%

Also remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Andi Kleen 0637a70a5d [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices.  i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.

This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 027a51cef3 [PATCH] Document my tree in Documentation/HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 352f7bae81 [PATCH] Add stack documentation document from Keith Owens
Describes the stack organization on x86-64.

I changed it a bit and removed some obsolete information and the
questions.

Cc: kaos@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
Andi Kleen e2414910f2 [PATCH] x86: Detect CFI support in the assembler at runtime
... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls
if the resulting executable actually has unwind information.

This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use
CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:30 +02:00
Andi Kleen 538b5b419c [PATCH] Document backtracer selection options
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Don Zickus e33e89ab1a [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.

By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system.  By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 84ed64ee8f PM: add /sys/power documentation to Documentation/ABI
The file sysfs-power that documents the interface in the /sys/power/ directory
is added to Documentation/ABI/testing.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Pavel Machek 1ebfd79eb4 PM: schedule /sys/devices/.../power/state for removal
This lists the /sys/devices/.../power/state file, and its internal support,
as due for removal next year.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
David Brownell 4fc0840006 updated Documentation/power/devices.txt
This turned into a rewrite of Documentation/power/devices.txt:

 - Provide more of the "big picture"

 - Fixup some of the horribly ancient/obsolete description of device suspend()
   semantics; lots of text just got deleted.

 - Add a decent description of PM_EVENT_* codes, including the new PRETHAW code
   needed in some swsusp scenarios.

 - Describe the new PM factorization from Linus:
     * class suspend, current suspend, then suspend_late
     * NOT suspend_prepare, it wasn't really usable
     * resume_early, current resume, class resume.

 - Updates power/state docs to be correct, and deprecate its usage except for
   driver testing.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:37 -07:00
Kay Sievers d81d9d6b9f deprecate PHYSDEV* keys
deprecate PHYSDEV* values in the uevent environment

These values are no longer needed and inconsistent with the
stacking of class devices. The event environment should not
carry properties of a parent device. The key PHYSDEVDRIVER is
available as DRIVER, PHYDEVBUS is indentical SUBSYSTEM. Class
devices should not carry any of these values.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
jens m. noedler 6d99eb33f5 Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Jay Vosburgh f5b2b966f0 [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.

	The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25 20:08:09 -04:00