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Maxime Bizon 8b23d04dd2 [PATCH] doc: update panic_on_oops documentation
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 12952784e5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Propagate acpi_processor_preregister_performance return value.
  [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules.
  [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Rename & fix multipliers table
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix power state test to do something more useful
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Readd accidentally dropped line
  [CPUFREQ] Make longhaul_walk_callback() static
  [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Initialise later.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Workaround issues with APIC.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Hook into ACPI C states.
  [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
2006-08-04 09:41:22 -07:00
Or Gerlitz 8ddc7c5326 IB/ipoib: Remove broken link from Kconfig and documentation
Remove references to the IPoIB IETF working group as it has been closed.

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-08-03 10:48:31 -07:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 064e875a4c USB: doc: fixes devio.c location in proc_usb_info.txt.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-02 16:41:42 -07:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 0e74b06aff USB: doc: usb-help.txt update.
http://www.suse.cz/development/linux-usb/ doesn't exist anymore.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-02 16:41:42 -07:00
Mattia Dongili 9c9a43ed27 [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
I just stumbled on this bug/feature, this is how to reproduce it:

# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave
# echo 1800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq ; echo $?
0
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave

Here it is. The kernel refuses to set a min_freq higher than the
max_freq but it allows a max_freq lower than min_freq (lowering min_freq
also).

This behaviour is pretty straightforward (but undocumented) and it
doesn't return an error altough failing to accomplish the requested
action (set min_freq).
The problem (IMO) is basically that userspace is not allowed to set a
full policy atomically while the kernel always does that thus it must
enforce an ordering on operations.

The attached patch returns -EINVAL if trying to increase frequencies
starting from scaling_min_freq and documents the correct ordering of writes.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--
2006-07-31 18:37:05 -04:00
Thomas Horsley 0a5eca6530 [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt
I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd image on a
fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file is apparently obsolete.
Here is a patch which I hope will reduce future confusion for others.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Roland McGrath 0b0bf7a3cc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables.  The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker.  The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both.  In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash".  The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents.  To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e.  preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section.  The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.

The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel.  On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.

This patch addresses the problem in two ways.

First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
 This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.

Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced.  This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland.  There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries.  The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has.  If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev 953a7f2066 [PATCH] Typo in ub clause of devices.txt
Change "Thrid" into "Third", and realign similarly to other entries.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:42 -07:00
Randy Dunlap bc7455fa3b [PATCH] Doc/SubmittingPatches cleanups
A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches:
- mention SubmitChecklist
- remove mention of my simple patch script tools
- remove last-updated line

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer 0fcb78c22f [PATCH] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functions
kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation.  This
adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some
of the functions.

Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they
finally become visible.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Randy Dunlap d75763d240 [PATCH] pci/search: cleanups, add to kernel-api.tmpl
Clean up kernel-doc comments in drivers/pci/search.c (line sizes and typos).

Enable that source file in DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 2b54960bdf [PATCH] fix kernel-api doc for kernel/resource.c
insert_resource() was unexported, so kernel-doc needs to be told to search
kernel/resource.c for internal functions instead of exported functions so that
it won't report an error.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 7c7165c908 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix hotplug cpu documentation for proper usage
Update hotplug cpu documentation to clearly state when to use
register_cpu_notifier() and register_hotcpu_notifier.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:39 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar 163ecdff06 [PATCH] delay accounting: temporarily enable by default
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing
without requiring special measures.

Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param.
 This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing.  It
can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users
shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting.  Or
it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common
enough to warrant keeping the feature on.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:37 -07:00
Andi Kleen b783fd925c [PATCH] x86_64: Document backtracer selection options
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-28 19:28:00 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 10ea6ac895 [NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: add deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
Add bridge netfilter deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
and disable them by default. Until their removal they will be
activated by the physdev match when needed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-24 22:54:55 -07:00
Steven Rostedt f92213bae0 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - doc update
This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt
since it shouldn't be used.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar 9e06d3f9f6 [PATCH] per task delay accounting taskstats interface: documentation fix
Change documentation and example program to reflect the flow control issues
being addressed by the cpumask changes.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar ad4ecbcba7 [PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid once
Send per-tgid data only once during exit of a thread group instead of once
with each member thread exit.

Currently, when a thread exits, besides its per-tid data, the per-tgid data
of its thread group is also sent out, if its thread group is non-empty.
The per-tgid data sent consists of the sum of per-tid stats for all
*remaining* threads of the thread group.

This patch modifies this sending in two ways:

- the per-tgid data is sent only when the last thread of a thread group
  exits.  This cuts down heavily on the overhead of sending/receiving
  per-tgid data, especially when other exploiters of the taskstats
  interface aren't interested in per-tgid stats

- the semantics of the per-tgid data sent are changed.  Instead of being
  the sum of per-tid data for remaining threads, the value now sent is the
  true total accumalated statistics for all threads that are/were part of
  the thread group.

The patch also addresses a minor issue where failure of one accounting
subsystem to fill in the taskstats structure was causing the send of
taskstats to not be sent at all.

The patch has been tested for stability and run cerberus for over 4 hours
on an SMP.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar a3baf649ca [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: documentation
Some documentation for delay accounting.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar c757249af1 [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface
Create a "taskstats" interface based on generic netlink (NETLINK_GENERIC
family), for getting statistics of tasks and thread groups during their
lifetime and when they exit.  The interface is intended for use by multiple
accounting packages though it is being created in the context of delay
accounting.

This patch creates the interface without populating the fields of the data
that is sent to the user in response to a command or upon the exit of a task.
Each accounting package interested in using taskstats has to provide an
additional patch to add its stats to the common structure.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Shailabh Nagar ca74e92b46 [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup
Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc.  The
collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches.  This patch
sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
disabled through a kernel boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer b9432e4d88 [PATCH] Remove pci_dac_set_dma_mask() from Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
pci_dac_set_dma_mask() gives only a single match in the whole kernel tree
and that's in this doc file.  The best candidate for replacement is
pci_dac_dma_supported().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:54 -07:00
Nathan Scott 086626a747 [PATCH] Update ramdisk documentation
The default ramdisk blocksize is actually 1024, not 512 bytes.  Also fixes
up some trailing whitespace issues.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 54d0a216f4 [MIPS] Replace board_timer_setup function pointer by plat_timer_setup.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

---
2006-07-13 21:26:17 +01:00
Linus Torvalds a0486407be Merge commit master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6 of HEAD
* HEAD:
  [PATCH] hwmon: Documentation update for abituguru
  [PATCH] hwmon: Fix for first generation Abit uGuru chips
  [PATCH] hwmon: New maintainer for w83791d
  [PATCH] pca9539: Honor the force parameter
  [PATCH] i2c-algo-bit: Wipe out dead code
  [PATCH] i2c: Handle i2c_add_adapter failure in i2c algorithm drivers
  [PATCH] i2c: New mailing list
  [PATCH] i2c-ite: Plan for removal
  [PATCH] i2c-powermac: Fix master_xfer return value
  [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix the block transactions
  [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix the state machine
  [PATCH] i2c-iop3xx: Avoid addressing self
  [PATCH] i2c: Fix 'ignore' module parameter handling in i2c-core
2006-07-12 21:19:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2513eb8e67 Merge commit master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 of HEAD
* HEAD:
  [PATCH] The scheduled unexport of insert_resource
  [PATCH] remove kernel/power/pm.c:pm_unregister_all()
  [PATCH] Driver core: bus.c cleanups
  [PATCH] Driver core: kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c corrections
  [PATCH] Driver core: fix driver-core kernel-doc
2006-07-12 21:19:06 -07:00
Adrian Bunk cd6ef2ada5 [PATCH] The scheduled unexport of insert_resource
Implement the scheduled unexport of insert_resource.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
Peter Moulder 3d86149472 [PATCH] USB: Addition of vendor/product id pair for pl2303 driver
Text from the back of the box, for your information/amusement:

 USB DATA CABLE
   FOR K700 Series

 The USB Cable is an ideal link between your mobile phone and PC. Employing
 the user-friendiy [sic] USB standard,its capacity for rapid data transfer enables functions
 such as synchronization of phone book and calendar,as well as Internet browsing via
 a modem-enabled phone.Autual [sic] connection speed is dependent on phone capacity.

 MADE IN CHINA

From: Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@infotech.monash.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:03:20 -07:00
Hans de Goede 5cab828bf0 [PATCH] hwmon: Documentation update for abituguru
Documentation update for the new bank1_types module param.

Also add what we know about different revisions of the uGuru and
a note that the abituguru driver unfortunatly does not work with the
latest and greatest motherboards, which have what I think is revision
4 of the uGuru.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 15:43:08 -07:00
Jean Delvare 5d925fecac [PATCH] i2c: New mailing list
We have a new mailing list dedicated to linux i2c:
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 15:43:07 -07:00
Jean Delvare 5a0174831c [PATCH] i2c-ite: Plan for removal
Plan the i2c-ite and i2c-algo-ite drivers for removal.
These drivers never compiled since they were added to the kernel
tree 5 years ago. Also see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mips&m=115040510817448

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 15:43:07 -07:00
Takashi Iwai f40b68903c [ALSA] Fix section mismatch errors in ALSA PCI drivers
Fixed 'section mismatch' errors in ALSA PCI drivers:
- removed invalid __devinitdata from pci id tables
- fix/remove __devinit of functions called in suspend/resume

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-07-12 20:08:01 +02:00
Andrew Morton e54695a59c [PATCH] checklist update
Update Documentation/SubmitChecklist.

- Mention lockdep coverage

- Describe documentation requirements

- Number the various items to simplify the composition of caustic emails.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig c59923a15c [PATCH] remove the tasklist_lock export
As announced half a year ago this patch will remove the tasklist_lock
export.  The previous two patches got rid of the remaining modular users.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:26 -07:00
Doug Thompson 49c0dab7e6 [PATCH] Fix and enable EDAC sysfs operation
When EDAC was first introduced into the kernel it had a sysfs interface,
but due to some problems it was disabled in 2.6.16 and remained disabled in
2.6.17.

With feedback, several of the control and attribute files of that interface
had some good constructive feedback.  PCI Blacklist/Whitelist was a major
set which has design issues and it has been removed in this patch.  Instead
of storing PCI broken parity status in EDAC, it has been moved to the
pci_dev structure itself by a previous PCI patch.  A future patch will
enable that feature in EDAC by utilizing the pci_dev info.

The sysfs is now enabled in this patch, with a minimal set of control and
attribute files for examining EDAC state and for enabling/disabling the
memory and PCI operations.

The Documentation for EDAC has also been updated to reflect the new state
of EDAC operation.

Signed-off-by:Doug Thompson <norsk5@xmisson.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 5d8b2ebfa2 [PATCH] VFS documentation tweak
As I was looking over the get_sb() changes, I stumbled across a little
mistake in the documentation updates.  Unless we're getting into an
interesting new object-oriented realm, I doubt that get_sb() should really
return "struct int"...

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:15 -07:00
Urs Thuermann 82a854ec4f [PATCH] RCU Documentation fix
Updater should use _rcu variant of list_del().

Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:15 -07:00
Horms 64552a50bc [PATCH] nfs: Update Documentation/nfsroot.txt to include dhcp, syslinux and isolinux
* Document the ip command a little differently to make the
  interaction between defaults and autoconfiguration a little clearer
  (I hope)

* Update autoconfiguration the current set of options, including DHCP

* Update the boot methods to add syslinux and isolinux, and remove
  dd of=/dev/fd0 which is no longer supported by linux

* Add a referance to initramfs along side initrd.
  Should the latter and its document be removed some time soon?

* Various cleanups to put the text consistently into the thrid person

* Reformated a bit to fit into 80 columns a bit more nicely

* Should the bootloaders documentation be removed or split
  into a separate documentation, it seems somewhat out of scope

Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0d1782144e Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Fix memory leak in POSIX-ACL support
  fs/jffs2/: make 2 functions static
  [MTD] NAND: Fix broken sharpsl driver
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Fix xd->refcnt race condition
  MTD: kernel-doc fixes + additions
  MTD: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  [MTD] DOC: Fixup read functions and do a little cleanup
2006-07-03 21:29:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 67ab33db8b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  [Bluetooth] Add RFCOMM role switch support
  [Bluetooth] Allow disabling of credit based flow control
  [Bluetooth] Small cleanup of the L2CAP source code
  [Bluetooth] Use real devices for host controllers
  [Bluetooth] Add platform device for virtual and serial devices
  [Bluetooth] Add automatic sniff mode support
  [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size on request
  [Bluetooth] Add suspend/resume support to the HCI USB driver
  [Bluetooth] Use raw mode for the Frontline sniffer device
  [BRIDGE]: br_dump_ifinfo index fix
  [ATM]: add+use poison defines
  [NET]: add+use poison defines
  [IOAT]: fix kernel-doc in source files
  [IOAT]: fix header file kernel-doc
  [TG3]: Add ipv6 TSO feature
  [IPV6]: Fix ipv6 GSO payload length
  [TIPC] Fixed sk_buff panic caused by tipc_link_bundle_buf (REVISED)
  [NET]: Verify gso_type too in gso_segment
  [IPVS]: Add sysctl documentation
  [ROSE]: Try all routes when establishing a ROSE connections.
  ...
2006-07-03 21:28:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f7d57e42e7 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (57 commits)
  [SCSI] fix error handling in scsi_io_completion
  [SCSI] qla1280: fix section mismatch warnings
  [SCSI] mptsas: eliminate ghost devices
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: make some more functions static
  [SCSI] small whitespace cleanup for qlogic driver
  [SCSI] mptbase: mpt_interrupt should return IRQ_NONE
  [SCSI] mptsas: make two functions static
  [SCSI] sg.c: Fix bad error handling in
  [SCSI] 53c700: fix breakage caused by the autosense update
  [SCSI] iscsi: add async notification of session events
  [SCSI] iscsi: pass target nr to session creation
  [SCSI] iscsi: break up session creation into two stages
  [SCSI] iscsi: rm channel usage from iscsi
  [SCSI] iscsi: fix session refcouting
  [SCSI] iscsi: convert iscsi_tcp to new set/get param fns
  [SCSI] iscsi: convert iser to new set/get param fns
  [SCSI] iscsi: fixup set/get param functions
  [SCSI] iscsi: add target discvery event to transport class
  [SCSI] st: remove unused st_buffer.in_use
  [SCSI] atp870u: reduce huge stack usage
  ...
2006-07-03 21:27:18 -07:00
Horms 6ce1669fdb [IPVS]: Add sysctl documentation
* Derived from http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/docs/sysctl.html, v1.4
  maintained by Wensong Zhang

* Adjusted preample to match ip-sysctl.txt

* Sorted options into alphabetical order

* Added expire_quiescent_template

* Removed timeout_* which are no longer present

* Incoporated doc/debug-levels.txt from IPVS source tree into
  description of ipvs_debug

* Minor spelling fixes

* Further editing more than welcome

Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-03 19:35:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 912b2539e1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  powerpc: add defconfig for Freescale MPC8349E-mITX board
  powerpc: Add base support for the Freescale MPC8349E-mITX eval board
  Documentation: correct values in MPC8548E SEC example node
  [POWERPC] Actually copy over i8259.c to arch/ppc/syslib this time
  [POWERPC] Add new interrupt mapping core and change platforms to use it
  [POWERPC] Copy i8259 code back to arch/ppc
  [POWERPC] New device-tree interrupt parsing code
  [POWERPC] Use the genirq framework
  [PATCH] genirq: Allow fasteoi handler to retrigger disabled interrupts
  [POWERPC] Update the SWIM3 (powermac) floppy driver
  [POWERPC] Fix error handling in detecting legacy serial ports
  [POWERPC] Fix booting on Momentum "Apache" board (a Maple derivative)
  [POWERPC] Fix various offb and BootX-related issues
  [POWERPC] Add a default config for 32-bit CHRP machines
  [POWERPC] fix implicit declaration on cell.
  [POWERPC] change get_property to return void *
2006-07-03 15:28:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f3e97da38e [PATCH] lockdep: design docs
Lock validator design documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar cae2ed9aa5 [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging
code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases.  There are 210
testcases currently:

  +-----------------------
  | Locking API testsuite:
  +------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
                                 | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
  -------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
                     A-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                 A-B-B-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
             A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
             A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                    double unlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                 bad unlock order:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
              recursive read-lock:             |  ok  |             |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
                non-nested unlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
  --------------------------------------+------+------+------+
     hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
     soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
       sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
       sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
         soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
    soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/132:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/213:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/231:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/312:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq lock-inversion/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      soft-irq lock-inversion/321:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/123:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/123:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/132:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/132:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/213:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/213:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/231:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/231:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/312:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/312:  ok  |
      hard-irq read-recursion/321:  ok  |
      soft-irq read-recursion/321:  ok  |
  --------------------------------+-----+----------------
  Good, all 210 testcases passed! |
  --------------------------------+

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 55df314fbd [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, docs
Add Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 9614634fe6 [PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O
It turns out that it is advantageous to leave a small portion of unmapped file
backed pages if all of a zone's pages (or almost all pages) are allocated and
so the page allocator has to go off-node.

This allows recently used file I/O buffers to stay on the node and
reduces the times that zone reclaim is invoked if file I/O occurs
when we run out of memory in a zone.

The problem is that zone reclaim runs too frequently when the page cache is
used for file I/O (read write and therefore unmapped pages!) alone and we have
almost all pages of the zone allocated.  Zone reclaim may remove 32 unmapped
pages.  File I/O will use these pages for the next read/write requests and the
unmapped pages increase.  After the zone has filled up again zone reclaim will
remove it again after only 32 pages.  This cycle is too inefficient and there
are potentially too many zone reclaim cycles.

With the 1% boundary we may still remove all unmapped pages for file I/O in
zone reclaim pass.  However.  it will take a large number of read and writes
to get back to 1% again where we trigger zone reclaim again.

The zone reclaim 2.6.16/17 does not show this behavior because we have a 30
second timeout.

[akpm@osdl.org: rename the /proc file and the variable]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
Kim Phillips cbdb54d3ca Documentation: correct values in MPC8548E SEC example node
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2006-07-03 15:33:38 -05:00