Sorely out of date. Add the linux-net wiki web site to
the NETWORKING maintainers entry, on which we maintain
the current networking TODO list.
Noticed by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix a few trivial mistakes in Documentation/cputopology.txt
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace all occurences of 0xff.. in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask()
and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from
linux/dma-mapping.h.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough to no
longer use this ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Modifies occurences in documentaion.
for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ???
(I'm not sure..)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.
We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] Don't make debugfs depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
[PATCH] Fix blktrace compile with sysfs not defined
[PATCH] unused label in drivers/block/cciss.
[BLOCK] increase size of disk stat counters
[PATCH] blk_execute_rq_nowait-speedup
[PATCH] ide-cd: quiet down GPCMD_READ_CDVD_CAPACITY failure
[BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: kmalloc -> kzalloc conversion
[PATCH] kzalloc() conversion in drivers/block
[PATCH] update max_sectors documentation
Remove the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices
claimed. Returning the count is unreliable because devices may be hot-plugged
in the future.
This changes the convention to "zero for success, or a negative error value,"
which matches pci_register_driver(), acpi_bus_register_driver(), and
platform_driver_register().
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- fix: initialize the robust list(s) to NULL in copy_process.
- doc update
- cleanup: rename _inuser to _inatomic
- __user cleanups and other small cleanups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Erik Mouw
The LART website moved to http://www.lartmaker.nl/. This patch
updates the URL in ARM specific files.
Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl>
Acked-by: Jan-Derk Bakker <jdb@lartmaker.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The max_sectors has been split into max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for some
time. A patch to have blk_queue_max_sectors enforce this was sent by
me and it broke IDE. This patch updates the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Fix spelling errors in EDAC documentation.
Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from
get_user_pages() and does something like
kmap_atomic(page)
modify page
kunmap_atomic(page)
However, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the
kunmap. We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would
specifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the
kernel has modified. The driver would need to add
flush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for
anything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like
fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA
to anonymous pages passed in by users.
The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which
is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/aoe-2.6:
[PATCH] aoe [3/3]: update version to 22
[PATCH] aoe [2/3]: don't request ATA device ID on ATA error
[PATCH] aoe [1/3]: support multiple AoE listeners
[PATCH] aoe: do not stop retransmit timer when device goes down
[PATCH] aoe [8/8]: update driver version number
[PATCH] aoe [7/8]: update driver compatibility string
[PATCH] aoe [6/8]: update device information on last close
[PATCH] aoe [5/8]: allow network interface migration on packet retransmit
[PATCH] aoe [4/8]: use less confusing driver name
[PATCH] aoe [3/8]: increase allowed outstanding packets
[PATCH] aoe [2/8]: support dynamic resizing of AoE devices
[PATCH] aoe [1/8]: zero packet data after skb allocation
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
kbuild: clean-up genksyms
kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
kbuild: fix genksyms build error
kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
...
Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
fix typos "wich" -> "which"
typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
Fix simple typos
tabify drivers/char/Makefile
...
Fix Documentation/firmware_class/ examples so that they will build.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add info on flow control for serial consoles. Refer to netconsole option
also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As Pekka Enberg pointed out, with the if still following the else, you can
still get a null uid written to the disk if you specify a default uid= without
uid=forget. In other words, if the desktop user is uid=1000 and the mount
option uid=1000 is given ( which is done on ubuntu automatically and probably
other distributions that use hal ), then if any other user besides uid 1000
owns a file then a 0 will be written to the media as the owning uid instead.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Flesh out the description of the address_space operations.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix documentation to match current implementation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs. The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name. We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.
There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an
errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form.
This check was never done in Linux.
The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts
were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout.
hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form.
Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the
optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as
already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16.
To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and
invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did.
Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel
messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected.
After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a
correct validation check. This is also documented in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers
(sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The RCU documentation uses an fp variable which is not declared in the code
snippets. Use the new_fp variable instead.
Signed-Off-By: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
Acked-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
The only possibly modular users left are:
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
which I'll send out fixes for soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative
memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory
allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches
(such as inode caches).
The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these
kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of
preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing.
All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack
and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be
allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA
mempolicy.
There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel
allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data
structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the
kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the
nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put
those pages on the node where the task is running.
If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the
kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes
and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to
use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is
running.
The implementation is simple. Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page'
or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or
subsequently joins that cpuset. In subsequent patches, the page allocation
calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an
inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the value of a
per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current
tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.
This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place
thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large
file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the
jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this patch, especially for jobs that
might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across
the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven.
A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well. And a couple of email
addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes the documentation of the ISA legacy functions.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update documentation of the common I/O layer:
- Add MSS-specific example.
- Add more information on ccwgroup devices.
- Add channel path type attribute.
- Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Allow the driver to recognize AoE devices that have changed size.
Devices not in use are updated automatically, and devices that are in
use are updated at user request.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
