* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: MSI -> MSIs
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: can -> could
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use `unknown ...' rather than `... know about.'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: may -> might
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: API -> function
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: , -> ;
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Move a sentence to another paragraph
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert `that'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Offset modifier with a comma, and insert `yet' for emphasis
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Put the `because' subordinate clause first
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: `asked for' -> `requested'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use present tense and streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE code tries to align the unpack destination to
the value of 'kernel_alignment' in the setup_hdr. If that's 0, it
tries to unpack to address 0, which in fact causes the gunzip code
to call 'error("Out of memory while allocating output buffer")'.
The bootloader (ie. the lguest Launcher in this case) should be doing
setting this field; the normal bzImage is 16M, we can use the same.
Reported-by: Stefanos Geraggelos <sgerag@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Remove the name of Sergey Kostyliov as maintainer of befs.
In the MAINTAINERS file, befs is orphaned.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
- add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
- alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
- spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
- remove trailing whitespace
- use hyphen in 32-bit etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropping LSD (Linux Source Driver) since it hasn't been available
for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Describes RSS, RPS, RFS, accelerated RFS, and XPS.
This version incorporates comments by Randy Dunlap and Rick Jones.
Besides text cleanup, it adds an explicit "Suggested Configuration"
heading to each section.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-By: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 655f8919d5
bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad
and commit ebd8e4977a
bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter
introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation
for those options.
V2: add the default value for both options.
V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patch reviewers now recommend not splitting long user-visible strings,
such as printk messages, even if they exceed 80 columns. This avoids
breaking grep. However, that recommendation did not actually appear
anywhere in Documentation/CodingStyle.
See, for example, the thread at
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1312215262.11635.15.camel%40Joe%2dLaptop%3e
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently the use of pm_runtime_put_sync() is not safe from
interrupts-disabled context because rpm_idle() will release the
spinlock and enable interrupts for the idle callbacks. This enables
interrupts during a time where interrupts were expected to be
disabled, and can have strange side effects on drivers that expected
interrupts to be disabled.
This is not a bug since the documentation clearly states that only
_put_sync_suspend() is safe in IRQ-safe mode.
However, pm_runtime_put_sync() could be made safe when in IRQ-safe
mode by releasing the spinlock but not re-enabling interrupts, which
is what this patch aims to do.
Problem was found when using some buggy drivers that set
pm_runtime_irq_safe() and used _put_sync() in interrupts-disabled
context.
Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Create /sys/devices/platform/ideapad/cfg for showing cfg value.
Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
we can now autodetect internal 3G device and already have the threeg
rfkill device. So, we plan to remove threeg sysfs support for it's no
longer necessary.
We also plan to remove interface sysfs file that exposed which ACPI-WMI
interface that was used by acer-wmi driver. It will replaced by information
log when acer-wmi initial.
We keep it around for userspace compatibility reasons, schedule removal
in 2012.
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (54 commits)
ipv6: check for IPv4 mapped addresses when connecting IPv6 sockets
mlx4: decreasing ref count when removing mac
net: Fix security_socket_sendmsg() bypass problem.
net: Cap number of elements for sendmmsg
net: sendmmsg should only return an error if no messages were sent
ixgbe: fix PHY link setup for 82599
ixgbe: fix __ixgbe_notify_dca() bail out code
igb: fix WOL on second port of i350 device
e1000e: minor re-order of #include files
e1000e: remove unnecessary check for NULL pointer
intel drivers: repair missing flush operations
macb: restore wrap bit when performing underrun cleanup
cdc_ncm: fix endianness problem.
irda: use PCI_VENDOR_ID_*
mlx4: Fixing Ethernet unicast packet steering
net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir()
bnx2x: Clear MDIO access warning during first driver load
bnx2x: Fix BCM578xx MAC test
bnx2x: Fix BCM54618se invalid link indication
bnx2x: Fix BCM84833 link
...
There are always questions about why CFQ is idling on various conditions.
Recent ones is Christoph asking again why to idle on REQ_NOIDLE. His
assertion is that XFS is relying more and more on workqueues and is
concerned that CFQ idling on IO from every workqueue will impact
XFS badly.
So he suggested that I add some more documentation about CFQ idling
and that can provide more clarity on the topic and also gives an
opprotunity to poke a hole in theory and lead to improvements.
So here is my attempt at that. Any comments are welcome.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
* 'apei-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default
APEI GHES: 32-bit buildfix
ACPI: APEI build fix
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add hardware memory error recovery support
HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Error records content based throttle
ACPI, APEI, GHES, printk support for recoverable error via NMI
lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
ACPI, APEI, Add WHEA _OSC support
ACPI, APEI, Add APEI bit support in generic _OSC call
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module
ACPI, APEI, Use apei_exec_run_optional in APEI EINJ and ERST
ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Do not ratelimit fatal error printk before panic
ACPI, APEI, ERST, Fix erst-dbg long record reading issue
ACPI, APEI, ERST, Prevent erst_dbg from loading if ERST is disabled
Update kernel-parameters.txt to point users to the authoritative comment
for name_to_dev_t. In addition, updates other places where some
name_to_dev_t behavior was discussed. All other references to root=
appear to be for explicit sample usage or just side comments when
discussing other kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init_fault_attr_dentries() is used to export fault_attr via debugfs.
But it can only export it in debugfs root directory.
Per Forlin is working on mmc_fail_request which adds support to inject
data errors after a completed host transfer in MMC subsystem.
The fault_attr for mmc_fail_request should be defined per mmc host and
export it in debugfs directory per mmc host like
/sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/mmc_fail_request.
init_fault_attr_dentries() doesn't help for mmc_fail_request. So this
introduces fault_create_debugfs_attr() which is able to create a
directory in the arbitrary directory and replace
init_fault_attr_dentries().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: extraneous semicolon, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
useful for disabling cpuidle to fall back
to architecture-default idle loop
cpuidle drivers and governors will fail to register.
on x86 they'll say so:
intel_idle: intel_idle yielding to (null)
ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to (null)
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some trivial conflicts due to other various merges
adding to the end of common lists sooner than this one.
arch/ia64/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/x86/Kconfig
lib/Kconfig
lib/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
EINJ parameter support is only usable for some specific BIOS.
Originally, it is expected to have no harm for BIOS does not support
it. But now, we found it will cause issue (memory overwriting) for
some BIOS. So param support is disabled by default and only enabled
when newly added module parameter named "param_extension" is
explicitly specified.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits)
ACPI: delete stale reference in kernel-parameters.txt
ACPI: add missing _OSI strings
ACPI: remove NID_INVAL
thermal: make THERMAL_HWMON implementation fully internal
thermal: split hwmon lookup to a separate function
thermal: hide CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
ACPI print OSI(Linux) warning only once
ACPI: DMI workaround for Asus A8N-SLI Premium and Asus A8N-SLI DELUX
ACPI / Battery: propagate sysfs error in acpi_battery_add()
ACPI / Battery: avoid acpi_battery_add() use-after-free
ACPI: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump
ACPI: constify ops structs
ACPI: fix CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
ACPI: fix 80 char overflow
ACPI / Battery: Resolve the race condition in the sysfs_remove_battery()
ACPI / Battery: Add the check before refresh sysfs in the battery_notify()
ACPI / Battery: Add the hibernation process in the battery_notify()
ACPI / Battery: Rename acpi_battery_quirks2 with acpi_battery_quirks
ACPI / Battery: Change 16-bit signed negative battery current into correct value
ACPI / Battery: Add the power unit macro
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile/mm/init.c: trivial: use BUG_ON
arch/tile: remove useless set_fixmap_nocache() macro
arch/tile: add hypervisor-based character driver for SPI flash ROM
ioctl-number.txt: add the tile hardwall ioctl range
tile: use generic-y format for one-line asm-generic headers
clocksource: tile: convert to use clocksource_register_hz
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
... as per Randy Dunlap's wishes :-P
Message-Id: <20110717114023.2b4cce91.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
