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2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb updateMarco Gittler
Better way of creating and loading the firmware used. Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box Help file for creating the firmware added Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5803): Bttv: add support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2Michael Krufky
add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2 Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5800): Tuner: correct description of Philips FCV1236D tunerMichael Krufky
The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be confused with other Philips tuner models. This patch corrects the name to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params array names to match the description. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5792): Zr364xx: add support for Trust Powerc@m 970ZAntoine Jacquet
Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices. Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5789): Fix 3dfx Voodoo entries on CardlistMauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5771): Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new locationMichael Krufky
Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware This url is no longer valid: http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip Replace with: http://www.softwarepatch.pl/9999ccd06a4813cb827dbb0005071c71/tt_Premium_217g.zip Thanks-to: Tobias Stoeber <tobi@to-st.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5765): SN9C1xx driver updatesLuca Risolia
- Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120 - Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(), close() and disconnect() - Use kref for handling device deallocation - Generic cleanups Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5701): Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt updateUwe Bugla
This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1. Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5685): Cx88: add support for ADS Tech Instant Video PCIDaniel Gimpelevich
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5646): V4l: saa7134: add support for 10moons TM300 cardTony Wan
Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a 10moons saa7130 based board. Here not include features for the IR-remote. It has been tested using TVTIME. The card was auto-detected and all the input sources worked correct with sound. Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tunerMauro Carvalho Chehab
This driver were made based on tea5761 specs. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-17rtc: make example code jump to done instead of return when ioctl not supportedHans-Christian Egtvedt
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17spi_lm70llp parport adapter driverKaiwan N Billimoria
This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly. Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename. 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>
2007-07-17CRC7 supportJan Nikitenko
Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication. Kerneldoc updates [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const] Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep looselyChristoph Lameter
Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep. If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines: ============================================ BUG <slab-cache>: <problem> -------------------------------------------- INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times] <object dump> FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action> This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its now capable of figuring out the start and end. Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in Documentation/vm/slub.txt. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman
This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at runtime for example. How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17handle kernelcore=: genericMel Gorman
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits) [POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver [POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number [POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration [POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++ [POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed [POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static [POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c [POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS [POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling [POWERPC] Remove extra return statement [POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED [POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports [POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc [POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane [POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support. [POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc ... Fixed up conflicts manually in: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c include/asm-powerpc/pci.h and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
2007-07-16Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (32 commits) [PATCH] ocfs2: zero_user_page conversion ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls ocfs2: support for removing file regions ocfs2: update truncate handling of partial clusters ocfs2: btree support for removal of arbirtrary extents ocfs2: Support creation of unwritten extents ocfs2: support writing of unwritten extents ocfs2: small cleanup of ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() ocfs2: btree changes for unwritten extents ocfs2: abstract btree growing calls ocfs2: use all extent block suballocators ocfs2: plug truncate into cached dealloc routines ocfs2: simplify deallocation locking ocfs2: harden buffer check during mapping of page blocks ocfs2: shared writeable mmap ocfs2: factor out write aops into nolock variants ocfs2: rework ocfs2_buffered_write_cluster() ocfs2: take ip_alloc_sem during entire truncate ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c ...
2007-07-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice more ACSI removal umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OKEd L. Cashin
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization when it is practical. This patch updates documentation for consistency with comments in spinlock_types.h. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txtBorislav Petkov
Update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Remove the last few UMSDOS leftoversJesper Juhl
The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck around. This patch removes the few remaining leftovers. The only things left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation. This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll send in a seperate patch removing the file completely. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/Jesper Juhl
Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16CodingStyle: add information about editor modelinesJosh Triplett
I recently received a patch including a file that had a vim modeline, and I realized that nothing specifically proscribed that practice. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespaceJosh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Add Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txtAndrew Morton
Poeple keep on adding new numbered sysctls, when they're supposed not to. Add a documentation file which explain why new sysctls should use CTL_UNNUMBERED. The next patch will sprinkle pointers to this throughout sysctl.c. Eric provided the text (thanks) Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txtBorislav Petkov
Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode infoRandy Dunlap
Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some architecture oops reports and what that means. Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16update procfs-guide doc of read_funcC. Scott Ananian
The procfs-guide claims that 'the parameter start doesn't seem to be used anywhere in the kernel'. This is out of date. In linux/fs/proc/generic.c we find a very nice description of the parameters to read_func. The appended patch replaces the bogus description with this (as far as I know) accurate one. Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Allow softlockup to be runtime disabledDave Jones
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime. Especially if it triggers during a distro install. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@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>
2007-07-16Document the fact that RCU callbacks can run in parallelPaul E. McKenney
Add an item to the RCU documentation checklist noting that RCU callbacks can run in parallel. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16hugetlbfs: use lib/parser, fix docsRandy Dunlap
Use lib/parser.c to parse hugetlbfs mount options. Correct docs in hugetlbpage.txt. old size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 675 bytes new size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 686 bytes (hugetlbfs_parse_options() is inlined) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16SubmitChecklist update, fix spelling errorJesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16undeprecate raw driverDave Jones
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16taskstats: add context-switch countersMaxim Uvarov
Make available to the user the following task and process performance statistics: * Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw) * Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw) Statistics information is available from: 1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/) 2. /proc/PID/status (task only). This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Documentation: /proc/$pid/stat filesKees Cook
Documentation for the /proc/$pid/stat file. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devicesPierre Ossman
Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device specified in root= to actually show up. If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be turned on via the command line option "rootwait". [bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static] Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_statsVenki Pallipadi
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers. This will let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in /proc/timer_stats. Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below. 10D, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 10, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16add printk.time option, deprecate 'time'Randy Dunlap
Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it could be enabled only, but not disabled. Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time"). Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value". Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be changed at run-time by modifying /sys/module/printk/parameters/time to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it. Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also be set at boot-time by using linux printk.time=<bool> If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated and will be removed. Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16fault-injection: fix example scripts in documentationAkinobu Mita
Fix and cleanup example scripts in fault injection documentation. 1. Eliminate broken oops() shell function. 2. Fold failcmd.sh and failmodule.sh into example scripts. It makes the example scripts work independent of current working directory. 3. Set "space" parameter to 0 to start injecting errors immediately. 4. Use /sys/module/<modulename>/sections/.data as upper bound of .text section. Because some module doesn't have .exit.text section. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16fault-injection: add min-order parameter to fail_page_allocAkinobu Mita
Limiting smaller allocation failures by fault injection helps to find real possible bugs. Because higher order allocations are likely to fail and zero-order allocations are not likely to fail. This patch adds min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc. It specifies the minimum page allocation order to be injected failures. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16vdso: print fatal signalsIngo Molnar
Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch. This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where userspace debugging is very hard. Defaults to off. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16more scheduled OSS driver removalAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16SLUB: support slub_debug on by defaultChristoph Lameter
Add a new configuration variable CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a kernel parameter. Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying slub_debug=- as a kernel parameter. Dave Jones wanted this feature. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logicKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6. This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable. Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based. [Default Order] The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically. [Node-based Order] This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones (ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist. current 2.6.21 kernel uses this. Pros. * A user can expect local memory as much as possible. Cons. * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL. Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. [Zone-based order] This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist. Pros. * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted. Cons. * memory locality may not be best. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd. command: %echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order. command: %echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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