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Linus Torvalds 5adaf851d2 Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text
That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump,
and was based even then on older versions.  Some of it is just obsolete,
and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and
should be updated to 3.0.

Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific.

Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-11 16:48:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c15000b40d Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
  [media] msp3400: fill in v4l2_tuner based on vt->type field
  [media] tuner-core.c: don't change type field in g_tuner or g_frequency
  [media] cx18/ivtv: fix g_tuner support
  [media] tuner-core: power up tuner when called with s_power(1)
  [media] v4l2-ioctl.c: check for valid tuner type in S_HW_FREQ_SEEK
  [media] tuner-core: simplify the standard fixup
  [media] tuner-core/v4l2-subdev: document that the type field has to be filled in
  [media] v4l2-subdev.h: remove unused s_mode tuner op
  [media] feature-removal-schedule: change in how radio device nodes are handled
  [media] bttv: fix s_tuner for radio
  [media] pvrusb2: fix g/s_tuner support
  [media] v4l2-ioctl.c: prefill tuner type for g_frequency and g/s_tuner
  [media] tuner-core: fix tuner_resume: use t->mode instead of t->type
  [media] tuner-core: fix s_std and s_tuner
2011-07-11 16:43:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 145628130b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86:
  hp-wmi: fix use after free
  dell-laptop - using buffer without mutex_lock
  Revert: "dell-laptop: Toggle the unsupported hardware killswitch"
  platform-drivers-x86: set backlight type to BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM
  thinkpad-acpi: handle HKEY 0x4010, 0x4011 events
  drivers/platform/x86: Fix memory leak
  thinkpad-acpi: handle some new HKEY 0x60xx events
  acer-wmi: fix bitwise bug when set device state
  acer-wmi: Only update rfkill status for associated hotkey events
2011-07-11 12:47:09 -07:00
Muthu Kumar 0580181784 Documentation/spinlocks.txt: Remove reference to sti()/cli()
Since we removed sti()/cli() and related, how about removing it from
Documentation/spinlocks.txt?

Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-11 12:45:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2169ce92ca Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: conditional resource-reallocation through kernel parameter pci=realloc
2011-07-10 07:28:51 -07:00
Ram Pai f483d3923d PCI: conditional resource-reallocation through kernel parameter pci=realloc
Multiple attempts to dynamically reallocate pci resources have
unfortunately lead to regressions. Though we continue to fix the
regressions and fine tune the dynamic-reallocation behavior, we have not
reached a acceptable state yet.
    
This patch provides a interim solution. It disables dynamic reallocation
by default, but adds the ability to enable it through pci=realloc kernel
command line parameter.
    
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-07-08 15:49:20 -07:00
David Howells c902ce1bfb FS-Cache: Add a helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode
Add an FS-Cache helper to bulk uncache pages on an inode.  This will
only work for the circumstance where the pages in the cache correspond
1:1 with the pages attached to an inode's page cache.

This is required for CIFS and NFS: When disabling inode cookie, we were
returning the cookie and setting cifsi->fscache to NULL but failed to
invalidate any previously mapped pages.  This resulted in "Bad page
state" errors and manifested in other kind of errors when running
fsstress.  Fix it by uncaching mapped pages when we disable the inode
cookie.

This patch should fix the following oops and "Bad page state" errors
seen during fsstress testing.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/namei.c:201!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Pid: 5, comm: kworker/u:0 Not tainted 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 #1 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010: cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
  RSP: 0018:ffff88002ce6dd00  EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: ffff88002ef165f0 RBX: ffff88001811f500 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000282
  RBP: ffff88002ce6dda0 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff81b3a300
  R10: 0000ffff00066c0a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff88002ae54840
  R13: ffff88002ae54840 R14: ffff880029c29c00 R15: ffff88001811f4b0
  FS:  00007f394dd32720(0000) GS:ffff88002ef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00007fffcb62ddf8 CR3: 000000001825f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kworker/u:0 (pid: 5, threadinfo ffff88002ce6c000, task ffff88002ce55cc0)
  Stack:
   0000000000000246 ffff88002ce55cc0 ffff88002ce6dd58 ffff88001815dc00
   ffff8800185246c0 ffff88001811f618 ffff880029c29d18 ffff88001811f380
   ffff88002ce6dd50 ffffffff814757e4 ffff88002ce6dda0 ffffffff8106ac56
  Call Trace:
   cachefiles_lookup_object+0x78/0xd4 [cachefiles]
   fscache_lookup_object+0x131/0x16d [fscache]
   fscache_object_work_func+0x1bc/0x669 [fscache]
   process_one_work+0x186/0x298
   worker_thread+0xda/0x15d
   kthread+0x84/0x8c
   kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  RIP  cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x436/0x745 [cachefiles]
  ---[ end trace 1d481c9af1804caa ]---

I tested the uncaching by the following means:

 (1) Create a big file on my NFS server (104857600 bytes).

 (2) Read the file into the cache with md5sum on the NFS client.  Look in
     /proc/fs/fscache/stats:

	Pages  : mrk=25601 unc=0

 (3) Open the file for read/write ("bash 5<>/warthog/bigfile").  Look in proc
     again:

	Pages  : mrk=25601 unc=25601

Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-07 13:21:56 -07:00
Hans Verkuil 6293698277 [media] feature-removal-schedule: change in how radio device nodes are handled
Radio devices have weird side-effects when used with combined TV/radio
tuners and the V4L2 spec is ambiguous on how it should work. This results
in inconsistent driver behavior which makes life hard for everyone.

Be more strict in when and how the switch between radio and tv mode
takes place and make sure all drivers behave the same.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2011-07-07 15:03:47 -03:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a50245af78 thinkpad-acpi: handle HKEY 0x4010, 0x4011 events
Handle events 0x4010 and 0x4011 so that we do not pester users about them.

These events report when the thinkpad is docked/undocked to a native
hotplug dock (i.e. one that does not need ACPI handling, nor is represented
in the ACPI device tree).  Such docks are based on USB 2.0/3.0, and also
work as port replicators.

We really want a proper dock class to report these, or at least new input
EV_SW events.  Since it is not clear which one to use yet, keep reporting
them as vendor-specific ThinkPad events.

WARNING: As defined by the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI rules of engagement, the
vendor-specific events will be REMOVED as soon as generic events are made
available (duplicate events are a big problem), with an appropriate update
to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs/event ABI versioning.  Userspace is already
prepared to provide easy backwards compatibility for such changes when
convenient to the distro (see acpi-fakekey).

* Event 0x4010: docking to hotplug dock/port replicator
* Event 0x4011: undocking from hotplug dock/port replicator

Typical usecase would be to trigger display reconfiguration.

Reports mention T410, T510, and series 3 docks/port replicators.  Special
thanks to Robert de Rooy for his extensive report and analysis of the
situation.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Port_Replicator_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Plus_Series_3
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Mini_Dock_Plus_Series_3_for_Mobile_Workstations
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=290

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Reported-by: Claudius Hubig <claudiushubig@chubig.net>
Reported-by: Doctor Bill <docbill@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Korte Noack <gbk.noack@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sebastian Will <swill@csail.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-07-07 10:39:05 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2d43f671c8 thinkpad-acpi: handle some new HKEY 0x60xx events
Handle some user interface events from the newer Lenovo models.  We are likely
to do something smart with these events in the future, for now, hide the ones
we are already certain about from the user and userspace both.

* Events 0x6000 and 0x6005 are key-related.  0x6005 is not properly identified
  yet.  Ignore these events, and do not report them.

* Event 0x6040 has not been properly identified yet, and we don't know if it
  is important (looks like it isn't, but still...).  Keep reporting it.

* Change the message the driver outputs on unknown 0x6xxx events, as all
  recent events are not related to thermal alarms.  Degrade log level from
  ALERT to WARNING.

Thanks to all users who reported these events or asked about them in a number
of mailing lists.  Your help is highly appreciated, even if I did took a lot of
time to act on them.  For that I apologise.

I will list those that identified the reasons for the events as "reported-by",
and I apologise in advance if I leave anyone out: it was not done on purpose, I
made the mistake of not properly tagging all event report emails separately,
and might have missed some.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Reported-by: Markus Malkusch <markus@malkusch.de>
Reported-by: Peter Giles <g1l3sp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-07-07 10:39:00 -04:00
Andrea Righi 9b61fc4cf3 Documentation: fix cgroup blkio throttle filenames
All the blkio.throttle.* file names are incorrectly reported without
".throttle" in the documentation. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-06 13:17:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl 316b379988 Documentation: update CodingStyle memory allocators
The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-06 13:17:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ba466c74d9 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal
  PM: Documentation: fix typo: pm_runtime_idle_sync() doesn't exist.
2011-07-03 13:33:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b775c38925 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h
  hwmon-vid: Fix typo in VIA CPU name
  hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71869A
  hwmon: Use <> rather than () around my e-mail address
  hwmon: (emc6w201) Properly handle all errors
2011-07-03 11:12:06 -07:00
Clemens Ladisch af75d5b771 hwmon: (k10temp) Update documentation for Fam12h
Add some CPU series IDs and links to the Fam12h datasheets.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2011-07-03 13:32:54 +02:00
Hans de Goede 5da556e33f hwmon: (f71882fg) Add support for the F71869A
The F71869A is almost the same as the F71869F/E, except that it has
the normal number of temp and pwm zones for a F71882FG derived chip,
rather then the limited number of the F71869F/E.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Max Baldwin <archerseven@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2011-07-03 13:32:53 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki f5da24dbed PM / Runtime: Update documentation regarding driver removal
Commit e1866b33b1 (PM / Runtime: Rework
runtime PM handling during driver removal) forgot to update the
documentation in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt to match the new
code in drivers/base/dd.c.  Update that documentation to match the
code it describes.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
2011-07-02 14:27:11 +02:00
Kevin Hilman 5efb54cc3f PM: Documentation: fix typo: pm_runtime_idle_sync() doesn't exist.
Replace reference to pm_runtime_idle_sync() in the driver core with
pm_runtime_put_sync() which is used in the code.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-07-02 14:27:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 2e34b429a4 Merge branch 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of USB/IP
  usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix cannot detect low/full speed device
  USB: ehci-ath79: fix a NULL pointer dereference
  USB: Add new FT232H chip to drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
  usb/isp1760: Fix bug preventing the unlinking of control urbs
  USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation.
  xhci: Always set urb->status to zero for isoc endpoints.
  xhci: Add reset on resume quirk for asrock p67 host
  xHCI 1.0: Incompatible Device Error
  USB: don't let errors prevent system sleep
  USB: don't let the hub driver prevent system sleep
  USB: change maintainership of ohci-hcd and ehci-hcd
  xHCI 1.0: Force Stopped Event(FSE)
  xhci: Don't warn about zeroed bMaxBurst descriptor field.
  USB: Free bandwidth when usb_disable_device is called.
  xhci: Reject double add of active endpoints.
  USB: TI 3410/5052 USB Serial Driver: Fix mem leak when firmware is too big.
  usb: musb: gadget: clear TXPKTRDY flag when set FLUSHFIFO
  usb: musb: host: compare status for negative error values
2011-06-28 11:15:17 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki ca9c6890b5 PM / Domains: Update documentation
Commit 4d27e9dcff (PM: Make power
domain callbacks take precedence over subsystem ones) forgot to
update the device power management documentation to take changes
made by it into account.  Correct that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:25:32 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 78420884e6 PM: Update documentation regarding sysdevs
The part of Documentation/power/devices.txt regarding sysdevs is not
valid any more after commit 2e711c04db
(PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations), so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:19:15 +02:00
Kevin Hilman 129b656a0d PM / Runtime: Update doc: usage count no longer incremented across system PM
Commit e866500247 (PM: Allow
pm_runtime_suspend() to succeed during system suspend) removed usage
count increment across system PM.

Update doc to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-06-21 23:17:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 357ed6b1a1 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
  rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
  rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
  rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
2011-06-19 08:56:56 -07:00
Sarah Sharp a9e758634f USB: Fix up URB error codes to reflect implementation.
Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt mentions that urb->status can be set to
-EXDEV, if the isochronous transfer was not fully completed.  However, in
practice, EHCI, UHCI, and OHCI all only set -EXDEV in the individual frame
status, never in the URB status.  Those host controller actually always
pass in a zero status to usb_hcd_giveback_urb, and rely on the core to set
the appropriate status value.

The xHCI driver ran into issues with the uvcvideo driver when it tried to
set -EXDEV in urb->status, because the driver refused to submit URBs, and
the userspace camera application's video froze.

Clean up the documentation to reflect the actual implementation.

Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
2011-06-17 11:28:21 -07:00
Jörg Sommer 67de0162fb Documentation: fix cgroup typos and formatting
Fix format and spelling.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Jörg Sommer f6e07d3807 Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point
According to commit 676db4af04 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup.  Hence, this should be used in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Maxin B. John 06a2c45d6b Documentation: update kmemleak supported archs
Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by
kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to
the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so
that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates
for this.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
Andrew Murray 04c55715cb Documentation: update printk-formats.txt
This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk
extended format specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org 31b5f8eeec Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove ns_cgroup from feature-removal-schedule.txt
Commit a77aea9201 ("cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup") removed the
ns_cgroup but it forgot to remove the related doc in
feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Serge E.  Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
Ying Han 50c35e5ba2 memcg: add documentation for the memory.numastat API
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework text, fit it into 80-cols]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 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>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
Michael Hennerich a59ec1e7ff backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
Shaohua Li 09223371de rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.

The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread.  A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.

Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler.  Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling.  (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime.  And "the meantime" might well be forever.)

This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work.  RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case.  This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-06-14 15:25:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 81eb3dd843 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: remove unusual use of bio_iovec_idx()
  md/raid5: fix FUA request handling in ops_run_io()
  md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segments
  md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
  md/bitmap: remove unused fields from struct bitmap
  md/bitmap: use proper accessor macro
  md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing disk
  md: Using poll  /proc/mdstat can monitor the events of adding a spare disks
  MD: use is_power_of_2 macro
  MD: raid5 do not set fullsync
  MD: support initial bitmap creation in-kernel
  MD: add sync_super to mddev_t struct
  MD: raid1 changes to allow use by device mapper
  MD: move thread wakeups into resume
  MD: possible typo
  MD: no sync IO while suspended
  MD: no integrity register if no gendisk
2011-06-14 11:21:21 -07:00
NeilBrown f699bf2328 md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
Reported-by: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09 11:43:04 +10:00
Alan Stern 21c13a4f7b usb-storage: redo incorrect reads
Some USB mass-storage devices have bugs that cause them not to handle
the first READ(10) command they receive correctly.  The Corsair
Padlock v2 returns completely bogus data for its first read (possibly
it returns the data in encrypted form even though the device is
supposed to be unlocked).  The Feiya SD/SDHC card reader fails to
complete the first READ(10) command after it is plugged in or after a
new card is inserted, returning a status code that indicates it thinks
the command was invalid, which prevents the kernel from retrying the
read.

Since the first read of a new device or a new medium is for the
partition sector, the kernel is unable to retrieve the device's
partition table.  Users have to manually issue an "hdparm -z" or
"blockdev --rereadpt" command before they can access the device.

This patch (as1470) works around the problem.  It adds a new quirk
flag, US_FL_INVALID_READ10, indicating that the first READ(10) should
always be retried immediately, as should any failing READ(10) commands
(provided the preceding READ(10) command succeeded, to avoid getting
stuck in a loop).  The patch also adds appropriate unusual_devs
entries containing the new flag.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Sven Geggus <sven-usbst@geggus.net>
Tested-by: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+linux@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07 09:05:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f0f52a9463 Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
  intel-iommu: Fix off-by-one in RMRR setup
  intel-iommu: Add domain check in domain_remove_one_dev_info
  intel-iommu: Remove Host Bridge devices from identity mapping
  intel-iommu: Use coherent DMA mask when requested
  intel-iommu: Dont cache iova above 32bit
  intel-iommu: Speed up processing of the identity_mapping function
  intel-iommu: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask
  intel-iommu: Only unlink device domains from iommu
  intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
  intel-iommu: Flush unmaps at domain_exit
  intel-iommu: Remove obsolete comment from detect_intel_iommu
  intel-iommu: fix VT-d PMR disable for TXT on S3 resume
2011-06-02 05:48:50 +09:00
Youquan Song 6dd9a7c737 intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
There are no externally-visible changes with this. In the loop in the
internal __domain_mapping() function, we simply detect if we are mapping:
  - size >= 2MiB, and
  - virtual address aligned to 2MiB, and
  - physical address aligned to 2MiB, and
  - on hardware that supports superpages.

(and likewise for larger superpages).

We automatically use a superpage for such mappings. We never have to
worry about *breaking* superpages, since we trust that we will always
*unmap* the same range that was mapped. So all we need to do is ensure
that dma_pte_clear_range() will also cope with superpages.

Adjust pfn_to_dma_pte() to take a superpage 'level' as an argument, so
it can return a PTE at the appropriate level rather than always
extending the page tables all the way down to level 1. Again, this is
simplified by the fact that we should never encounter existing small
pages when we're creating a mapping; any old mapping that used the same
virtual range will have been entirely removed and its obsolete page
tables freed.

Provide an 'intel_iommu=sp_off' argument on the command line as a
chicken bit. Not that it should ever be required.

==

The original commit seen in the iommu-2.6.git was Youquan's
implementation (and completion) of my own half-baked code which I'd
typed into an email. Followed by half a dozen subsequent 'fixes'.

I've taken the unusual step of rewriting history and collapsing the
original commits in order to keep the main history simpler, and make
life easier for the people who are going to have to backport this to
older kernels. And also so I can give it a more coherent commit comment
which (hopefully) gives a better explanation of what's going on.

The original sequence of commits leading to identical code was:

Youquan Song (3):
      intel-iommu: super page support
      intel-iommu: Fix superpage alignment calculation error
      intel-iommu: Fix superpage level calculation error in dma_pfn_level_pte()

David Woodhouse (4):
      intel-iommu: Precalculate superpage support for dmar_domain
      intel-iommu: Fix hardware_largepage_caps()
      intel-iommu: Fix inappropriate use of superpages in __domain_mapping()
      intel-iommu: Fix phys_pfn in __domain_mapping for sglist pages

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-06-01 12:26:35 +01:00
Rusty Russell 990c91f0af lguest: remove support for VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY.
No virtio device does this any more, so no need to clutter lguest with it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell bc805a03c2 lguest: fix up compilation after move
ed16648eb5 "Move kvm, uml, and lguest
subdirectories" broke the lguest example launcher.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-05-30 11:14:12 +09:30
Linus Torvalds 2ba781ced9 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (43 commits)
  acer-wmi: support integer return type from WMI methods
  msi-laptop: fix section mismatch in reference from the function load_scm_model_init
  acer-wmi: support to set communication device state by new wmid method
  acer-wmi: allow 64-bits return buffer from WMI methods
  acer-wmi: check the existence of internal 3G device when set capability
  platform/x86:delete two unused variables
  support wlan hotkey on Acer Travelmate 5735Z
  platform-x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix memory leak
  platform/x86: Fix Makefile for intel_mid_powerbtn
  platform/x86: Simplify intel_mid_powerbtn
  acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation
  acerhdf: Clean up includes
  acerhdf: Drop pointless dependency on THERMAL_HWMON
  acer-wmi: Update MAINTAINERS
  wmi: Orphan ACPI-WMI driver
  tc1100-wmi: Orphan driver
  acer-wmi: does not allow negative number set to initial device state
  platform/oaktrail: ACPI EC Extra driver for Oaktrail
  thinkpad_acpi: Convert printks to pr_<level>
  thinkpad_acpi: Correct !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO warning
  ...
2011-05-29 11:44:33 -07:00
Matthew Garrett 437cb0dbd1 Merge branch 'x86-platform-next' into x86-platform 2011-05-29 14:27:13 -04:00
Linus Torvalds daa94222b6 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI EC: remove redundant code
  ACPI: Add D3 cold state
  ACPI: processor: fix processor_physically_present in UP kernel
  ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
  ACPI: Cleanup custom_method debug stuff
  ACPI EC: enable MSI workaround for Quanta laptops
  ACPICA: Update to version 20110413
  ACPICA: Execute an orphan _REG method under the EC device
  ACPICA: Move ACPI_NUM_PREDEFINED_REGIONS to a more appropriate place
  ACPICA: Update internal address SpaceID for DataTable regions
  ACPICA: Add more methods eligible for NULL package element removal
  ACPICA: Split all internal Global Lock functions to new file - evglock
  ACPI: EC: add another DMI check for ASUS hardware
  ACPI EC: remove dead code
  ACPICA: Fix code divergence of global lock handling
  ACPICA: Use acpi_os_create_lock interface
  ACPI: osl, add acpi_os_create_lock interface
  ACPI:Fix goto flows in thermal-sys
2011-05-29 11:19:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f310642123 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
2011-05-29 11:18:09 -07:00
Len Brown 5d4c47e019 x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT on SMP hardware that supports it.

But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI uses only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and never uses mwait_idle().

Deprecate mwait_idle() and the "idle=mwait" cmdline param
to simplify the x86 idle code.

After this change, kernels configured with
(!CONFIG_ACPI=n && !CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that support MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be used.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:17 -04:00
Len Brown cdaab4a0d3 x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
We'd rather that modern machines not check if HLT works on
every entry into idle, for the benefit of machines that had
marginal electricals 15-years ago.  If those machines are still running
the upstream kernel, they can use "idle=poll".  The only difference
will be that they'll now invoke HLT in machine_hlt().

cc: x86@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:16 -04:00
Len Brown 99c6322143 x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
We don't want to export the pm_idle function pointer to modules.
Currently CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE w/ CONFIG_APM_MODULE forces us to.

CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is of dubious value, it runs only on 32-bit
uniprocessor laptops that are over 10 years old.  It calls into
the BIOS during idle, and is known to cause a number of machines
to fail.

Removing CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE and will allow us to stop exporting
pm_idle.  Any systems that were calling into the APM BIOS
at run-time will simply use HLT instead.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:15 -04:00
Len Brown 3b70b2e5fc x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
Plan to remove floppy_disable_hlt in 2012, an ancient
workaround with comments that it should be removed.

This allows us to remove clutter and a run-time branch
from the idle code.

WARN_ONCE() on invocation until it is removed.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:15 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 526b4af47f ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
With /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method root can write
to arbitrary memory and increase his priveleges, even if
these are restricted.

-> Make this an own debug .config option and warn about the
security issue in the config description.

-> Still keep acpi/debugfs.c which now only creates an empty
   /sys/kernel/debug/acpi directory. There might be other
   users of it later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: rui.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 01:50:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 36947a7682 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (36 commits)
  Cache xattr security drop check for write v2
  fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish
  mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write
  configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  fat: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  hpfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  minix: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  afs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  affs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  9p: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  ncpfs: fix rename over directory with dangling references
  ncpfs: document dentry_unhash usage
  ecryptfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  hfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
  omfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rneame
  udf: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash from rmdir, dir rename
  ...
2011-05-28 13:03:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1ba4b8cb94 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
  rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads
  rcu: Avoid acquiring rcu_node locks in timer functions
  atomic: Add atomic_or()
  Documentation: Add statistics about nested locks
  rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof
  rcu: Make rcu_enter_nohz() pay attention to nesting
  rcu: Don't do reschedule unless in irq
  rcu: Remove old memory barriers from rcu_process_callbacks()
  rcu: Add memory barriers
  rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests
2011-05-28 12:56:32 -07:00