* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: #ifdef simplification
slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
slub: Whitespace cleanup and use of strict_strtoul
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Bolt in SLB entry for kernel stack on secondary cpus
[POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig
[POWERPC] PS3: Remove unsupported wakeup sources
[POWERPC] PS3: Make ps3_virq_setup and ps3_virq_destroy static
[POWERPC] PS3: Add time include to lpm
[POWERPC] Fix slb.c compile warnings
[POWERPC] Xilinx: Fix compile warnings
[POWERPC] Squash build warning for print of resource_size_t in fsl_soc.c
[RAPIDIO] fix current kernel-doc notation
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for PCI Express x8 slot
Fix a potential issue in mpc52xx uart driver
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Allow for fixed speed MII configurations
[POWERPC] 86xx: Fix the wrong serial1 interrupt for 8610 board
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
[SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
[SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
[SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
[SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
[SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd->cmnd use request->cmd buffer
[SCSI] bsg: add large command support
[SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
[SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
[SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
[SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.
Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Add functionality to slabinfo to print out the number of fallbacks
that have occurred for each slab cache when the -D option is specified.
Also widen the allocation / free field since the numbers became
too big after a week.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Various improvements for configuring the MPC5200 MII link from the
device tree:
* Look for 'current-speed' property for fixed speed MII links
* Look for 'fsl,7-wire-mode' property for boards using the 7 wire mode
* move definition of private data structure out of the header file
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
hwmon: (adt7473) minor cleanup / refactoring
hwmon: (asb100) Remove some dead code
hwmon: (lm75) Fix an incorrect comment
hwmon: (w83793) VID and VRM handling cleanups
hwmon: (w83l785ts) Don't ask the user to report failures
hwmon: (smsc47b397) add a new chip id (0x8c)
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges. eg:
crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M. Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.
Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling. Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.
[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (179 commits)
ACPI: Fix acpi_processor_idle and idle= boot parameters interaction
acpi: fix section mismatch warning in pnpacpi
intel_menlo: fix build warning
ACPI: Cleanup: Remove unneeded, multiple local dummy variables
ACPI: video - fix permissions on some proc entries
ACPI: video - properly handle errors when registering proc elements
ACPI: video - do not store invalid entries in attached_array list
ACPI: re-name acpi_pm_ops to acpi_suspend_ops
ACER_WMI/ASUS_LAPTOP: fix build bug
thinkpad_acpi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup failed
ACPI: check a return value correctly in acpi_power_get_context()
#if 0 acpi/bay.c:eject_removable_drive()
eeepc-laptop: add hwmon fan control
eeepc-laptop: add backlight
eeepc-laptop: add base driver
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix selects in Kconfig
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a private workqueue
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fluff really minor fix
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentation
...
Fixed conflicts in drivers/acpi/video.c and drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
manually.
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:
1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects
Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.
While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.
The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.
Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.
The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.
Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.
The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.
The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list
Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.
The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).
The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.
The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A few fields in /proc/meminfo were not documented. Fix.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move BDI statistics to debugfs:
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/<bdi>/stats
Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs,
because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall().
Update descriptions in ABI documentation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- fix parsing in max_ratio_store().
- export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules
- limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio
- document new sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.
min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device. This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS. (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)
max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device. This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache. Eg. an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.
Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
- document new sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.
In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.
With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH
[mszeredi@suse.cz]
- split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
- document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
- do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
won't be initialized
- remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are some places that are known to operate on tasks'
global pids only:
* the rest_init() call (called on boot)
* the kgdb's getthread
* the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns)
So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there
and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal.
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't refer to file that no longer exists:
docproc: linux-2.6.25-git14/arch/powerpc/kernel/rio.c: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the Version and Changelog for megaraid_sas Driver
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (28 commits)
V4L-DVB(7789a): cx18: fix symbol conflict with ivtv driver
V4L/DVB (7789): tuner: remove static dependencies on analog tuner sub-modules
V4L/DVB (7785): [2.6 patch] make mt9{m001,v022}_controls[] static
V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip
V4L/DVB (7783): drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1420.c: printk fix
V4L/DVB (7782): pvrusb2: Driver is no longer experimental
V4L/DVB (7781): pvrusb2-dvb: include dvb support by default and update Kconfig help text
V4L/DVB (7780): pvrusb2: always enable support for OnAir Creator / HDTV USB2
V4L/DVB (7779): pvrusb2-dvb: quiet down noise in kernel log for feed debug
Rename common tuner Kconfig names to use the same
Fix V4L/DVB core help messages
V4L/DVB (7769): Move other terrestrial tuners to common/tuners
V4L/DVB (7768): reorganize some DVB-S Kconfig items
V4L/DVB(7767): Move tuners to common/tuners
V4L/DVB (7766): saa7134: add another PCI ID for Beholder M6
V4L/DVB (7765): Add support for Beholder BeholdTV H6
V4L/DVB (7763): ivtv: add tuner support for the AverMedia M116
V4L/DVB (7762): ivtv: fix tuner detection for PAL-N/Nc
V4L/DVB (7761): ivtv: increase the DMA timeout from 100 to 300 ms
V4L/DVB (7759): ivtv: increase version number to 1.2.1
...
Many thanks to Steve Toth from Hauppauge and Nattu Dakshinamurthy from
Conexant for their support. I am in particular thankful to Hauppauge
since without their help this driver would not exist. It should also
be noted that Steve did the work to get the DVB part up and running.
Thank you!
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: G. Andrew Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
pciehp: fix error message about getting hotplug control
pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown v2
pci/irq: restore mask_bits in msi shutdown -v3
doc: replace yet another dev with pdev for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt
PCI: don't expose struct pci_vpd to userspace
doc: fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL for PCI like buses
Consistently use pdev as the variable of type struct pci_dev *.
pciehp: Fix command write
shpchp: fix slot name
make pciehp_acpi_get_hp_hw_control_from_firmware()
pciehp: Clean up pcie_init()
pciehp: Mask hotplug interrupt at controller release
pciehp: Remove useless hotplug interrupt enabling
pciehp: Fix wrong slot capability check
pciehp: Fix wrong slot control register access
pciehp: Add missing memory barrier
pciehp: Fix interrupt event handlig
pciehp: fix slot name
Update MAINTAINERS with location of PCI tree
PCI: Add Intel SCH PCI IDs
...
Replace "dev" with "pdev" for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt.
Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] state info wrong after resume
[CPUFREQ] allow use of the powersave governor as the default one
[CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
[CPUFREQ] expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services. CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel. Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the keyring quotas controllable through /proc/sys files:
(*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys
/proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxbytes
Maximum number of keys that root may have and the maximum total number of
bytes of data that root may have stored in those keys.
(*) /proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxkeys
/proc/sys/kernel/keys/maxbytes
Maximum number of keys that each non-root user may have and the maximum
total number of bytes of data that each of those users may have stored in
their keys.
Also increase the quotas as a number of people have been complaining that it's
not big enough. I'm not sure that it's big enough now either, but on the
other hand, it can now be set in /etc/sysctl.conf.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: <arunsr@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Cc: <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key.
The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt:
(*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key.
long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer,
size_t buflen)
This function returns a string that represents the LSM security context
attached to a key in the buffer provided.
Unless there's an error, it always returns the amount of data it could
produce, even if that's too big for the buffer, but it won't copy more
than requested to userspace. If the buffer pointer is NULL then no copy
will take place.
A NUL character is included at the end of the string if the buffer is
sufficiently big. This is included in the returned count. If no LSM is
in force then an empty string will be returned.
A process must have view permission on the key for this function to be
successful.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare keyctl_get_security()]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string for
internal kernel services that call any request_key_*() interface other than
request_key(). request_key() itself still takes a NUL-terminated string.
The functions that change are:
request_key_with_auxdata()
request_key_async()
request_key_async_with_auxdata()
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kernel bugzilla #10388.
DMA-API.txt has wrong argument type for some functions. It uses struct device
but should use struct pci_dev.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Document the new dma_*map*_attrs() functions.
[markn@au1.ibm.com: fix up for dma-add-dma_map_attrs-interfaces and update docs]
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This flag provides the hardwalling properties of mem_exclusive, without
enforcing the exclusivity. Either mem_hardwall or mem_exclusive is sufficient
to prevent GFP_KERNEL allocations from passing outside the cpuset's assigned
nodes.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The resource counter is supposed to facilitate the resource accounting of
arbitrary resource (and it already does this for memory controller).
However, it is about to be used in other resources controllers (swap, kernel
memory, networking, etc), so provide a doc describing how to work with it.
This will eliminate all the possible future duplications in the appropriate
controllers' docs.
Fixed errors pointed out by Randy.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation tpyo]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are at system boot and there is only 1 cgroup group (i,e, init_css_set), so
we don't need to run through the css_set linked list. Neither do we need to
run through the task list, since no processes have been created yet.
Also referring to a comment in cgroup.h:
struct css_set
{
...
/*
* Set of subsystem states, one for each subsystem. This array
* is immutable after creation apart from the init_css_set
* during subsystem registration (at boot time).
*/
struct cgroup_subsys_state *subsys[CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT];
}
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device
files. A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup.
A whitelist entry has 4 fields. 'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block).
'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers. Major
and minor are either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r
(read), w (write), and m (mknod).
The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child devcg gets a copy of
the parent. Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new
entries. A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its
parent. However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not
also be removed from the child(ren).
An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using
devices.deny. For instance
echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow
allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
/dev/null. Doing
echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny
will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new
cgroup. A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent
has. Any task can move itself between cgroups. This won't be sufficient, but
we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds support for OLPC XO hardware. Open Firmware on XOs don't contain
the VSA, so it is necessary to emulate the PCI BARs in the kernel. This also
adds functionality for running EC commands, and a CONFIG_OLPC.
A number of OLPC drivers depend upon CONFIG_OLPC.
olpc_ec_timeout is a hack to work around Embedded Controller bugs.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: geode_has_vsa build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: olpc_register_battery_callback doesn't exist]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SysRQ-P is not always useful on SMP systems, since it usually ends up showing
the backtrace of a CPU that is doing just fine, instead of the backtrace of
the CPU that is having problems.
This patch adds SysRQ show-all-cpus(L), which shows the backtrace of every
active CPU in the system. It skips idle CPUs because some SMP systems are
just too large and we already know what the backtrace of the idle task looks
like.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and
whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to
know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag
in the taint state.
This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition.
These archs are:
1. s390
2. superh
3. avr32
4. parisc
The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list
in this email to alert them to the situation.
The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the
new flag.
Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Full LED sysfs support, and the rest of the assorted minor fixes and
enhancements are a good reason to checkpoint a new version...
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Change all occourences of the "led" word to full uppercase in user
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add a sysfs led class interface to the led subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add a sysfs led class interface to the thinklight (light subdriver).
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the kernel has size limitations, so
"thinkpad-acpi" ends up eating up too much real estate. We were using
"tpacpi" in symbols already, but this shorthand was not visible to
userland.
Document that the driver will use tpacpi as a short hand where necessary,
and use it to name the kernel thread for NVRAM polling (now named
"ktpacpi_nvramd").
Also, register a module alias with the shorthand. One can refer to the
module using the shorthand name.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Lenovo ThinkPads with generic ACPI backlight level control can be easily
set to react to keyboard brightness key presses in a more predictable way
than what they do when in "DOS / bootloader" mode after Linux brings
up the ACPI interface.
The switch to the ACPI backlight mode in the firmware is designed to be
safe to use only as an one way trapdoor. One is not to force the firmware
to switch back to "DOS/bootloader" mode except by rebooting. The mode
switch itself is performed by calling any of the ACPI _BCL methods at least
once.
When in ACPI mode, the backlight firmware just issues (standard) events for
the brightness up/down hot key presses along with the non-standard HKEY
events which thinkpad-acpi traps, and doesn't touch the hardware.
thinkpad-acpi will:
1. Place the ThinkPad firmware in ACPI backlight control mode
if one is available
2. Suppress HKEY backlight change notifications by default
to avoid double-reporting when ACPI video is loaded when
the ThinkPad is in ACPI backlight control mode
3. Urge the user to load the ACPI video driver
The user is free to use either the ACPI video driver to get the brightness
key events, or to override the thinkpad-acpi default hotkey mask to get
them from thinkpad-acpi as well (this will result in duplicate events if
ACPI video is loaded, so let's hope distros won't screw this up).
Provided userspace is sane, all should work (and *keep* working), which is
more that can be said about the non-ACPI mode of the new Lenovo ThinkPad
BIOSes when coupled to current userspace and X.org drivers.
Full guidelines for backlight hot key reporting and use of the
thinkpad-acpi backlight interface have been added to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This patch adds gpiolib support for mpc5200 SOCs.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Update the documentation for the thermal driver hwmon sys I/F.
Change the ACPI thermal zone type to be consistent with hwmon.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
kconfig: add named choice group
kconfig: fix choice dependency check
kconifg: 'select' considered less evil
dontdiff: ignore timeconst.h
dontdiff: add modules.order
kbuild: fix unportability in gen_initramfs_list.sh
kbuild: fix help output to show correct arch
kbuild: show defconfig subdirs in make help
kconfig: reversed borderlines in inputbox
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: pack objects denser
slub: Calculate min_objects based on number of processors.
slub: Drop DEFAULT_MAX_ORDER / DEFAULT_MIN_OBJECTS
slub: Simplify any_slab_object checks
slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache
slub: Drop fallback to page allocator method
slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation
slub: Update statistics handling for variable order slabs
slub: Add kmem_cache_order_objects struct
slub: for_each_object must be passed the number of objects in a slab
slub: Store max number of objects in the page struct.
slub: Dump list of objects not freed on kmem_cache_close()
slub: free_list() cleanup
slub: improve kmem_cache_destroy() error message
slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment.
While select should be used with care, it is not actually evil.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Ignore the autobuilt kernel/timeconst.h when
using diff on an built kernel tree.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Add modules.order to the list of files that
shoud be ignored when using diff on a built
kernel tree.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
There is a description of some of the sysfs files. However, there are some
that are not mentioned in the documentation, so add them to the user's guide.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
bitops source file was renamed, so fix docbook for that.
docproc: linux-2.6.25-git11/include/asm-x86/bitops_32.h: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL to pci_alloc_consistent
for PCI like buses where devices don't have struct pci_dev (like ISA, EISA).
Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
Update DMA mapping documentation to use 'pdev' rather than 'dev' in
example code that calls routines expecting 'struct pci_device *', since 'dev'
might make readers think they're passing 'struct device *' parameters.
Bug 10397.
Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of the file, or it
has CAP_FOWNER capability. But FAT filesystem doesn't have uid/gid as
on disk info, so normal check is too unflexible.
With this option you can relax it.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Improve write performance by preventing the delayed_list from dumping all its
stripes onto the handle_list in one shot. Delayed stripes are now further
delayed by being held on the 'hold_list'. The 'hold_list' is bypassed when:
* a STRIPE_IO_STARTED stripe is found at the head of 'handle_list'
* 'handle_list' is empty and i/o is being done to satisfy full stripe-width
write requests
* 'bypass_count' is less than 'bypass_threshold'. By default the threshold
is 1, i.e. every other stripe handled is a preread stripe provided the
top two conditions are false.
Benchmark data:
System: 2x Xeon 5150, 4x SATA, mem=1GB
Baseline: 2.6.24-rc7
Configuration: mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-e] -n 4 -l 5 --assume-clean
Test1: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048
* patched: +33% (stripe_cache_size = 256), +25% (stripe_cache_size = 512)
Test2: tiobench --size 2048 --numruns 5 --block 4096 --block 131072 (XFS)
* patched: +13%
* patched + preread_bypass_threshold = 0: +37%
Changes since v1:
* reduce bypass_threshold from (chunk_size / sectors_per_chunk) to (1) and
make it configurable. This defaults to fairness and modest performance
gains out of the box.
Changes since v2:
* [neilb@suse.de]: kill STRIPE_PRIO_HI and preread_needed as they are not
necessary, the important change was clearing STRIPE_DELAYED in
add_stripe_bio and this has been moved out to make_request for the hang
fix.
* [neilb@suse.de]: simplify get_priority_stripe
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: reset the bypass_count when ->hold_list is
sampled empty (+11%)
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: decrement the bypass_count at the detection
of stripes being naturally promoted off of hold_list +2%. Note, resetting
bypass_count instead of decrementing on these events yields +4% but that is
probably too aggressive.
Changes since v3:
* cosmetic fixups
Tested-by: James W. Laferriere <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the 965G and 965GM graphic chipsets to the intelfb driver. I
have a notebook with an Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
Controller and with the attached patch the framebuffer comes up. I have
tested it a bit with DirectFB to make sure it is working stable.
I also have an Intel Mobile GM945 and I compared the results, the programming
interface of the 9xx series from Intel is mostly the same, so I think the
patch should add all the functionality which the 945GM has.
Signed-off-by: Maik Broemme <mbroemme@plusserver.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch splits metronomefb into the platform independent metronomefb and
the platform dependent am200epd.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The following features are supported:
plane 0 works as a regular frame buffer, can be accessed by /dev/fb0
plane 1 has two AOIs (area of interest), can be accessed by /dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2
plane 2 has two AOIs, can be accessed by /dev/fb3 and /dev/fb4
Special ioctls support AOIs
All /dev/fb* can be used as regular frame buffer devices, except hardware
change can only be made through /dev/fb0. Changing pixel clock has no effect
on other fbs.
Limitation of usage of AOIs:
AOIs on the same plane can not be horizonally overlapped
AOIs have horizonal order, i.e. AOI0 should be always on top of AOI1
AOIs can not beyond phisical display area. Application should check AOI geometry
before changing physical resolution on /dev/fb0
required command line parameters to preallocate memory for frame buffer diufb.
optional command line parameters to set modes and monitor
video=fslfb:[resolution][,bpp][,monitor]
Syntax:
Resolution
xres x yres-bpp@refresh_rate, the -bpp and @refresh_rate are optional
eg, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x1024-32, 1280x1024@60, 1280x1024-32@60, 1280x480-32@60
Bpp
bpp=32, bpp=24, or bpp=16
Monitor
monitor=0, monitor=1, monitor=2
0 is DVI
1 is Single link LVDS
2 is Double link LVDS
Note: switching monitor is a board feather, not DIU feather. MPC8610HPCD has three
monitor ports to swtich to. MPC5121ADS doesn't have additional monitor port. So switching
monirot port for MPC5121ADS has no effect.
If compiled as a module, it takes pamameters mode, bpp, monitor with the same syntax above.
Signed-off-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By default disable VT switch, but allow it to be overridden via the
'vt_switch' module arg.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Match other fb drivers (including gxfb). Also, document the current boot
arguments in Documentation/fb/lxfb.txt.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add names of drivers converted to "mode_option" parameter.
This is one step toward changing all fb drivers to have common "mode_option"
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prior to suspend, we allocate and switch to a new VT; after suspend, we switch
back to the original VT. This can be slow, and is completely unnecessary if
the framebuffer we're using can restore video properly.
This adds a hook that allows drivers to select whether or not to do this vt
switch, and changes the gxfb driver to call this hook. It also adds a module
param to gxfb to allow controlling of the vt switch (defaulting to no switch).
(Note: I'm not convinced that console_sem is the best way to protect this, but
we should probably have some form of locking..)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use a command line option (vram) rather than hardcoding the vram size. LxFB
already does this; it's useful for machines that can't query the BIOS for fb
size. This patch originated from David Woodhouse, was modified by Jordan
Crouse, and was then modified further by me.
This also adds some gxfb documentation in Documentation/fb.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce a gpio_is_valid() predicate; use it in gpiolib.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>
[ use inline function; follow the gpio_* naming convention;
work without gpiolib; all programming interfaces need docs ]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the description of batch registration interfaces to
Documentation/kprobes.txt.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move sample source code to its own source file so that it can be used
easier and build-tested/check/maintained by anyone.
(Makefile changes are in a separate patch for all of Documentation/.)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we're using "preferred local" policy for system default, we need to
make this as fast as possible. Because of the variable size of the mempolicy
structure [based on size of nodemasks], the preferred_node may be in a
different cacheline from the mode. This can result in accessing an extra
cacheline in the normal case of system default policy. Suspect this is the
cause of an observed 2-3% slowdown in page fault testing relative to kernel
without this patch series.
To alleviate this, use an internal mode flag, MPOL_F_LOCAL in the mempolicy
flags member which is guaranteed [?] to be in the same cacheline as the mode
itself.
Verified that reworked mempolicy now performs slightly better on 25-rc8-mm1
for both anon and shmem segments with system default and vma [preferred local]
policy.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, when one specifies MPOL_DEFAULT via a NUMA memory policy API
[set_mempolicy(), mbind() and internal versions], the kernel simply installs a
NULL struct mempolicy pointer in the appropriate context: task policy, vma
policy, or shared policy. This causes any use of that policy to "fall back"
to the next most specific policy scope.
The only use of MPOL_DEFAULT to mean "local allocation" is in the system
default policy. This requires extra checks/cases for MPOL_DEFAULT in many
mempolicy.c functions.
There is another, "preferred" way to specify local allocation via the APIs.
That is using the MPOL_PREFERRED policy mode with an empty nodemask.
Internally, the empty nodemask gets converted to a preferred_node id of '-1'.
All internal usage of MPOL_PREFERRED will convert the '-1' to the id of the
node local to the cpu where the allocation occurs.
System default policy, except during boot, is hard-coded to "local
allocation". By using the MPOL_PREFERRED mode with a negative value of
preferred node for system default policy, MPOL_DEFAULT will never occur in the
'policy' member of a struct mempolicy. Thus, we can remove all checks for
MPOL_DEFAULT when converting policy to a node id/zonelist in the allocation
paths.
In slab_node() return local node id when policy pointer is NULL. No need to
set a pol value to take the switch default. Replace switch default with
BUG()--i.e., shouldn't happen.
With this patch MPOL_DEFAULT is only used in the APIs, including internal
calls to do_set_mempolicy() and in the display of policy in
/proc/<pid>/numa_maps. It always means "fall back" to the the next most
specific policy scope. This simplifies the description of memory policies
quite a bit, with no visible change in behavior.
get_mempolicy() continues to return MPOL_DEFAULT and an empty nodemask when
the requested policy [task or vma/shared] is NULL. These are the values one
would supply via set_mempolicy() or mbind() to achieve that condition--default
behavior.
This patch updates Documentation to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
fast paths. In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
unref for interleave policies.
A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.
This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
simplifies the code. Maybe I'll get it right this time.
See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.
Summary:
Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
policies. So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
counting added by my previous attempt. It then unrefs only shared policies
when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
helper function introduced by this patch.
Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
containing just the policy. read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
this case. To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy. This copy occurs before reading
a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
here.
I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
conditional free. The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The terms 'policy' and 'mode' are both used in various places to describe the
semantics of the value stored in the 'policy' member of struct mempolicy.
Furthermore, the term 'policy' is used to refer to that member, to the entire
struct mempolicy and to the more abstract concept of the tuple consisting of a
"mode" and an optional node or set of nodes. Recently, we have added "mode
flags" that are passed in the upper bits of the 'mode' [or sometimes,
'policy'] member of the numa APIs.
I'd like to resolve this confusion, which perhaps only exists in my mind, by
renaming the 'policy' member to 'mode' throughout, and fixing up the
Documentation. Man pages will be updated separately.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES and MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES don't mean anything for
MPOL_PREFERRED policies that were created with an empty nodemask (for purely
local allocations). They'll never be invalidated because the allowed mems of
a task changes or need to be rebound relative to a cpuset's placement.
Also fixes a bug identified by Lee Schermerhorn that disallowed empty
nodemasks to be passed to MPOL_PREFERRED to specify local allocations. [A
different, somewhat incomplete, patch already existed in 25-rc5-mm1.]
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Updates Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt and
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe optional mempolicy mode flags.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.
A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the
core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in
comments).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add <linux/clk.h> to the generated kerneldoc, with some overview
to go along with those per-function descriptions.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'kvm-updates-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (147 commits)
KVM: kill file->f_count abuse in kvm
KVM: MMU: kvm_pv_mmu_op should not take mmap_sem
KVM: SVM: remove selective CR0 comment
KVM: SVM: remove now obsolete FIXME comment
KVM: SVM: disable CR8 intercept when tpr is not masking interrupts
KVM: SVM: sync V_TPR with LAPIC.TPR if CR8 write intercept is disabled
KVM: export kvm_lapic_set_tpr() to modules
KVM: SVM: sync TPR value to V_TPR field in the VMCB
KVM: ppc: PowerPC 440 KVM implementation
KVM: Add MAINTAINERS entry for PowerPC KVM
KVM: ppc: Add DCR access information to struct kvm_run
ppc: Export tlb_44x_hwater for KVM
KVM: Rename debugfs_dir to kvm_debugfs_dir
KVM: x86 emulator: fix lea to really get the effective address
KVM: x86 emulator: fix smsw and lmsw with a memory operand
KVM: x86 emulator: initialize src.val and dst.val for register operands
KVM: SVM: force a new asid when initializing the vmcb
KVM: fix kvm_vcpu_kick vs __vcpu_run race
KVM: add ioctls to save/store mpstate
KVM: Rename VCPU_MP_STATE_* to KVM_MP_STATE_*
...
Change the statistics to consider that slabs of the same slabcache
can have different number of objects in them since they may be of
different order.
Provide a new sysfs field
total_objects
which shows the total objects that the allocated slabs of a slabcache
could hold.
Add a max field that holds the largest slab order that was ever used
for a slab cache.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This functionality is definitely experimental, but is capable of running
unmodified PowerPC 440 Linux kernels as guests on a PowerPC 440 host. (Only
tested with 440EP "Bamboo" guests so far, but with appropriate userspace
support other SoC/board combinations should work.)
See Documentation/powerpc/kvm_440.txt for technical details.
[stephen: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
We have "vlb|pci_clock=" parameters now.
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameter
(it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004).
Then remove corresponding code from ide_probe_port()
and no longer used ->reset field from ide_hwif_t.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameter
(it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004).
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds