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Author SHA1 Message Date
Steven Whitehouse 31e77ac55f Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-09-04 10:31:36 -04:00
Adrian Bunk 1e5f5e5cd6 [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd round
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4c15343167 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
  [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile
  [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase
  [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms
  [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
  [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition
  [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
  [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2
  [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
  [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking
  [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file
  [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts
  [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer
  [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense
  [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc
  [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree.
  [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too.
  [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build
  [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export
2006-08-30 21:44:06 -07:00
Andi Kleen 40dd2d20f2 [PATCH] x86: Disable MMCONFIG on Intel SDV using DMI blacklist
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.

This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:16 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 3efbdd136e [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
The booting-without-of.txt had incorrect definition for the sense codes
for an OpenPIC controller

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-30 10:36:18 +10:00
Steven Whitehouse 83b7a664a0 Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-08-29 11:39:34 -04:00
Paul Jackson 4c4d50f7b3 [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_map
Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to
dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier.  Make
this top cpus file read-only.

On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't
actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of
systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset.

If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use
of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed
in the top cpuset.  This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels
that didn't have cpusets enabled.

In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems
actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes
the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read
only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map.  Thus
tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed
by their cpuset.

Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem,
driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:32 -07:00
Tom Zanussi e88d78f6ba [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interface
Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match
the relayfs->relay changes.  It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the
process.

It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap,
thanks for those.

The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found
on the sourceforge relayfs website.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan a2e0b56316 [PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpable
Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but
fs.suid_dumpable.

How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:28 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 897522ea1c [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/
I was asked several times to include userspace example code into
Documentation, so if there is no policy against it, consider attached patch
for 2.6.18. This program works with included Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
connector module.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 18:42:00 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman f834c75542 Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 2006-08-26 13:04:23 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b7277155f8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-08-23 21:11:56 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan c712a9de94 Input: remove dead URLs from Doclumentation/input/joystick.txt
Closes #2804.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-08-23 00:48:33 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ef7d1b244f Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-08-18 11:02:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ed0da6fc9d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-08-18 09:20:04 -07:00
Jon Loeliger f583165f6a [POWERPC] Convert to mac-address for ethernet MAC address data.
Also accept "local-mac-address".  However the old "address"
is now obsolete, but accepted for backwards compatibility.
It should be removed after all device trees have been
converted to use "mac-address".

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-18 09:50:16 +10:00
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak fb33f82568 [NET]: Terminology in ip-sysctl.txt
this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl
in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max",
while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values.
Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max"
values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:50 -07:00
Edgar Hucek b64ef8afa5 [PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection
Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for
imacfb.

Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-14 12:54:28 -07:00
Brandon Philips e9539ee73a genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txt
block/genhd.c no longer in drivers/.  Update Documentation/kobjects.txt

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-11 14:06:05 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse ad73c67e79 Merge branch 'master' 2006-08-07 09:16:35 -04:00
James Bottomley 00dd7b7d26 Merge ../linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c

Stylistic differences in two separate fixes for buffer->request_buffer
problem.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-08-06 12:42:33 -05:00
Maxime Bizon 8b23d04dd2 [PATCH] doc: update panic_on_oops documentation
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 12952784e5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Propagate acpi_processor_preregister_performance return value.
  [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules.
  [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Rename & fix multipliers table
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix power state test to do something more useful
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Readd accidentally dropped line
  [CPUFREQ] Make longhaul_walk_callback() static
  [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Initialise later.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Workaround issues with APIC.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Hook into ACPI C states.
  [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
2006-08-04 09:41:22 -07:00
Or Gerlitz 8ddc7c5326 IB/ipoib: Remove broken link from Kconfig and documentation
Remove references to the IPoIB IETF working group as it has been closed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This patch addresses the problem in two ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:37 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse b1b934d31d Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-31 08:59:59 -04:00
Andi Kleen b783fd925c [PATCH] x86_64: Document backtracer selection options
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-28 19:28:00 -07:00
Ju, Seokmann 0b4972d591 [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: a fix on "kernel unaligned access address" issue
There was an issue in the data structure defined by megaraid driver
casuing "kernel unaligned access.." messages to be displayed during
IOCTL on IA64 platform.

The issue has been reported/fixed by Sakurai Hiroomi
[sakurai_hiro@soft.fujitsu.com].

Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-07-28 13:19:12 -05:00
Ju, Seokmann aa677bc744 [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: a fix on INQUIRY with EVPD
With this patch, driver will protect data corruption created by
INQUIRY with EVPD request to megaraid controllers.  As specified in
the changelog, megaraid F/W already has fixed the issue and being
under process of release. Meanwhile, driver will protect the system
with this patch.

Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-07-28 13:13:50 -05:00
Ju, Seokmann fbf6080225 [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: 64-bit DMA capability checker
This patch contains
- a fix for 64-bit DMA capability check in megaraid_{mm,mbox} driver.
- includes changes (going back to 32-bit DMA mask if 64-bit DMA mask
failes) suggested by James with previous patch.
- addition of SATA 150-4/6 as commented by Vasily Averin.

With patch, the driver access PCIconfiguration space with dedicated
offset to read a signature. If the signature read, it means that the
controller has capability to handle 64-bit DMA.
Without this patch, the driver used to blindly claim 64-bit DMA
capability.
The issue has been reported by Vasily Averin [vvs@sw.ru].
Thank you Vasily for the reporting.

Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-07-28 13:10:23 -05:00
Patrick McHardy 10ea6ac895 [NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: add deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
Add bridge netfilter deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
and disable them by default. Until their removal they will be
activated by the physdev match when needed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-24 22:54:55 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 4bf311ddfb Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-17 09:25:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt f92213bae0 [PATCH] remove set_wmb - doc update
This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt
since it shouldn't be used.

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

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

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

This patch modifies this sending in two ways:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:54 -07:00