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2010-05-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6: (29 commits) pcmcia: disable PCMCIA ioctl also for ARM drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (quatech_daqp_cs) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (ni_mio_cs) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (ni_labpc_cs) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (ni_daq_dio24) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (ni_daq_700) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (das08_cs) drivers/staging/comedi: dev_node removal (cb_das16_cs) pata_pcmcia: get rid of extra indirection pcmcia: remove suspend-related comment from yenta_socket.c pcmcia: call pcmcia_{read,write}_cis_mem with ops_mutex held pcmcia: remove pcmcia_add_device_lock pcmcia: update gfp/slab.h includes pcmcia: remove unused mem_op.h pcmcia: do not autoadd root PCI bus resources pcmcia: clarify alloc_io_space, move it to resource handlers pcmcia: move all pcmcia_resource_ops providers into one module pcmcia: move high level CIS access code to separate file pcmcia: dev_node removal (core) pcmcia: dev_node removal (remaining drivers) ...
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM: PM QOS update fix Freezer / cgroup freezer: Update stale locking comments PM / platform_bus: Allow runtime PM by default i2c: Fix bus-level power management callbacks PM QOS update PM / Hibernate: Fix block_io.c printk warning PM / Hibernate: Group swap ops PM / Hibernate: Move the first_sector out of swsusp_write PM / Hibernate: Separate block_io PM / Hibernate: Snapshot cleanup FS / libfs: Implement simple_write_to_buffer PM / Hibernate: document open(/dev/snapshot) side effects PM / Runtime: Add sysfs debug files PM: Improve device power management document PM: Update device power management document PM: Allow runtime_suspend methods to call pm_schedule_suspend() PM: pm_wakeup - switch to using bool
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits) KEYS: Return more accurate error codes LSM: Add __init to fixup function. TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry. Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency" Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal" KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link() TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible. KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key() KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers ...
2010-05-19Merge branch 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.35' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (45 commits) Revert "nfsd4: distinguish expired from stale stateids" nfsd: safer initialization order in find_file() nfs4: minor callback code simplification, comment NFSD: don't report compiled-out versions as present nfsd4: implement reclaim_complete nfsd4: nfsd4_destroy_session must set callback client under the state lock nfsd4: keep a reference count on client while in use nfsd4: mark_client_expired nfsd4: introduce nfs4_client.cl_refcount nfsd4: refactor expire_client nfsd4: extend the client_lock to cover cl_lru nfsd4: use list_move in move_to_confirmed nfsd4: fold release_session into expire_client nfsd4: rename sessionid_lock to client_lock nfsd4: fix bare destroy_session null dereference nfsd4: use local variable in nfs4svc_encode_compoundres nfsd: further comment typos sunrpc: centralise most calls to svc_xprt_received nfsd4: fix unlikely race in session replay case nfsd4: fix filehandle comment ...
2010-05-19Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: Add clocksource_register_hz/khz interface posix-cpu-timers: Optimize run_posix_cpu_timers() time: Remove xtime_cache mqueue: Convert message queue timeout to use hrtimers hrtimers: Provide schedule_hrtimeout for CLOCK_REALTIME timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers ntp: Remove tickadj ntp: Make time_adjust static time: Add xtime, wall_to_monotonic to feature-removal-schedule timer: Try to survive timer callback preempt_count leak timer: Split out timer function call timer: Print function name for timer callbacks modifying preemption count time: Clean up warp_clock() cpu-timers: Avoid iterating over all threads in fastpath_timer_check() cpu-timers: Change SIGEV_NONE timer implementation cpu-timers: Return correct previous timer reload value cpu-timers: Cleanup arm_timer() cpu-timers: Simplify RLIMIT_CPU handling
2010-05-19Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Clear CPU mask in affinity_hint when none is provided genirq: Add CPU mask affinity hint genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq() genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irq Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-05-19Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (224 commits) ARM: remove 'select GENERIC_TIME' ARM: 6136/1: ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB selects GENERIC_GPIO ARM: 6074/1: oprofile: convert from sysdev to platform device ARM: 6073/1: oprofile: remove old files and update KConfig ARM: 6072/1: oprofile: use perf-events framework as backend ARM: 6071/1: perf-events: allow modules to query the number of hardware counters ARM: 6070/1: perf-events: add support for xscale PMUs ARM: 6069/1: perf-events: use numeric ID to identify PMU ARM: 6064/1: pmu: register IRQs at runtime ARM: Optionally allow ARMv6 to use 'normal, bufferable' memory for DMA ARM: 6134/1: Handle instruction cache maintenance fault properly ARM: nwfpe: allow debugging output to be configured at runtime ARM: rename mach_cpu_disable() to platform_cpu_disable() ARM: 6132/1: PL330: Add common core driver ARM: 6094/1: Extend cache-l2x0 to support the 16-way PL310 ARM: Move memory mapping into mmu.c ARM: Ensure meminfo is sorted prior to sanity_check_meminfo ARM: Remove useless linux/bootmem.h includes ARM: convert /proc/cpu/aligment to seq_file arm: use asm-generic/scatterlist.h ...
2010-05-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (127 commits) sh: update defconfigs. sh: Fix up the NUMA build for recent LMB changes. sh64: provide a stub per_cpu_trap_init() definition. sh: fix up CONFIG_KEXEC=n build. sh: fixup the docbook paths for clock framework shuffling. driver core: Early dev_name() depends on slab_is_available(). sh: simplify WARN usage in SH clock driver sh: Check return value of clk_get on ms7724 sh: Check return value of clk_get on ecovec24 sh: move sh clock-cpg.c contents to drivers/sh/clk-cpg.c sh: move sh clock.c contents to drivers/sh/clk. sh: move sh asm/clock.h contents to linux/sh_clk.h V2 sh: remove unused clock lookup sh: switch boards to clkdev sh: switch sh4-202 to clkdev sh: switch shx3 to clkdev sh: switch sh7757 to clkdev sh: switch sh7763 to clkdev sh: switch sh7780 to clkdev sh: switch sh7786 to clkdev ...
2010-05-18Merge branch 'x86-txt-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-txt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, tboot: Add support for S3 memory integrity protection
2010-05-18Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, pat: Update the page flags for memtype atomically instead of using memtype_lock x86, pat: In rbt_memtype_check_insert(), update new->type only if valid x86, pat: Migrate to rbtree only backend for pat memtype management x86, pat: Preparatory changes in pat.c for bigger rbtree change rbtree: Add support for augmented rbtrees
2010-05-18Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning. tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus. tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
2010-05-18Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits) stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback() sched, wait: Use wrapper functions sched: Remove a stale comment ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us() sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats() sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us() sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us() cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() ...
2010-05-18Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits) perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1 perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4 perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition perf options: Introduce OPT_U64 perf tui: Add help window to show key associations perf tui: Make <- exit menus too perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters perf report: Report number of events, not samples perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
2010-05-18Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits) rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations rcu head introduce rcu head init on stack Debugobjects transition check rcu: fix build bug in RCU_FAST_NO_HZ builds rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ must check RCU dyntick state rcu: make SRCU usable in modules rcu: improve the RCU CPU-stall warning documentation rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations rcu: permit discontiguous cpu_possible_mask CPU numbering rcu: improve RCU CPU stall-warning messages rcu: print boot-time console messages if RCU configs out of ordinary rcu: disable CPU stall warnings upon panic rcu: enable CPU_STALL_VERBOSE by default rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling rcu: rename rcutiny rcu_ctrlblk to rcu_sched_ctrlblk rcu: shrink rcutiny by making synchronize_rcu_bh() be inline rcu: fix now-bogus rcu_scheduler_active comments. rcu: Fix bogus CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING in comments to reflect reality. rcu: ignore offline CPUs in last non-dyntick-idle CPU check ...
2010-05-18Merge branch 'core-iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line option iommu-api: Remove iommu_{un}map_range functions x86/amd-iommu: Implement ->{un}map callbacks for iommu-api x86/amd-iommu: Make amd_iommu_iova_to_phys aware of multiple page sizes x86/amd-iommu: Make iommu_unmap_page and fetch_pte aware of page sizes x86/amd-iommu: Make iommu_map_page and alloc_pte aware of page sizes kvm: Change kvm_iommu_map_pages to map large pages VT-d: Change {un}map_range functions to implement {un}map interface iommu-api: Add ->{un}map callbacks to iommu_ops iommu-api: Add iommu_map and iommu_unmap functions iommu-api: Rename ->{un}map function pointers to ->{un}map_range
2010-05-18Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2010-05-17Merge branch 'devel-stable' into develRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/Kconfig arch/arm/include/asm/system.h arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
2010-05-13nfsd4: implement reclaim_completeJ. Bruce Fields
This is a mandatory operation. Also, here (not in open) is where we should be committing the reboot recovery information. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2010-05-13sh: fixup the docbook paths for clock framework shuffling.Paul Mundt
Now that the definitions have been consolidated in an alternate header, update the template accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-05-13Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update from -rc5 to -rc7. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-11revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commitsRobin Holt
Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the stack. Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was applied to fix the NO_MMU case. Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded. Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a userland stack address. Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages being used to solve a significant performance regression. This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches. The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in field 28. For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack start address. This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes it worthless. That includes the intended use of showing how much stack space a thread has. Other architectures will get different values. As an example, ia64 gets 0. The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific. I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") . If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is configured. Since I could not test the builds without significant effort, I decided to not change mm/Makefile. I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") . I left the KSTK_ESP() change in place as that seemed worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-11input: remove obsolete {corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd.cEric Miao
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
2010-05-11[ARM] pxa: remove now un-used corgi_ssp.c and corgi_lcd.cEric Miao
The only use of corgi_ssp.c is corgi_ts.c, which is now deprecated and removed. Remove corgi_ssp.c and corgi_lcd.c and their relevant function declarations and data structures. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
2010-05-11x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line optionJoerg Roedel
This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-05-10PM QOS updateMark Gross
This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was used in the initial implementation. I did this because request more accurately represents what it actually does. Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string interface. So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be accepted by the interface. (someone asked me for it and I don't think it hurts anything.) This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy. Signed-off-by: markgross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10PM / Hibernate: document open(/dev/snapshot) side effectsPavel Machek
Opening and closing /dev/snapshot causes the kernel to carry out some hibernate preparations that should be documented. [rjw: Added the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10PM: Improve device power management documentAlan Stern
Improve the device power management document after it's been updated by the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10PM: Update device power management documentRafael J. Wysocki
The device PM document, Documentation/power/devices.txt, is badly outdated and requires total rework to fit the current design of the PM framework. Make it more up to date. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-05-10rcu: improve the RCU CPU-stall warning documentationPaul E. McKenney
The existing Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt has proven unhelpful, so rework it a bit. In particular, show how to interpret the stall-warning messages. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocationsPaul E. McKenney
Lai Jiangshan noted that up to 10% of the RCU_SOFTIRQ are spurious, and traced this down to the fact that the current grace-period machinery will uselessly raise RCU_SOFTIRQ when a given CPU needs to go through a quiescent state, but has not yet done so. In this situation, there might well be nothing that RCU_SOFTIRQ can do, and the overhead can be worth worrying about in the ksoftirqd case. This patch therefore avoids raising RCU_SOFTIRQ in this situation. Changes since v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/122 from Lai Jiangshan): o Omit the rcu_qs_pending() prechecks, as they aren't that much less expensive than the quiescent-state checks. o Merge with the set_need_resched() patch that reduces IPIs. o Add the new n_rp_report_qs field to the rcu_pending tracing output. o Update the tracing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10Merge branch 'linus' into timers/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-05-10pcmcia: dev_node removal (core)Dominik Brodowski
Remove the dev_node declaration. We now only pass the device name to the deprecated userspace tools. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2010-05-10pcmcia: re-work pcmcia_request_irq()Dominik Brodowski
Instead of the old pcmcia_request_irq() interface, drivers may now choose between: - calling request_irq/free_irq directly. Use the IRQ from *p_dev->irq. - use pcmcia_request_irq(p_dev, handler_t); the PCMCIA core will clean up automatically on calls to pcmcia_disable_device() or device ejection. - drivers still not capable of IRQF_SHARED (or not telling us so) may use the deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() for the time being; they might receive a shared IRQ nonetheless. CC: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org CC: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2010-05-08Merge branch 'cpu_stop' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into sched/core
2010-05-07Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-07Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2010-05-06V4L/DVB: feature-removal: announce videotext.h removalHans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-05-06sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stopTejun Heo
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-05-06Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: security/keys/keyring.c Resolved conflict with whitespace fix in find_keyring_by_name() Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-05-06Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
2010-05-05libata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guideSergei Shtylyov
Commit 6bfff31e77cfa1b13490337e5a4dbaa3407e83ac (libata: kill probe_ent and related helpers) killed ata_device_add() but didn't remove references to it from the libata developer's guide. Commits 9363c3825ea9ad76561eb48a395349dd29211ed6 (libata: rename SFF functions) and 5682ed33aae05d10a25c95633ef9d9c062825888 (libata: rename SFF port ops) renamed the taskfile access methods but didn't update the developer's guide. Commit c9f75b04ed5ed65a058d18a8a8dda50632a96de8 (libata: kill ata_noop_dev_select()) didn't update the developer's guide as well. The guide also refers to the long gone ata_pio_data_xfer_noirq(), ata_pio_data_xfer(), and ata_mmio_data_xfer() -- replace those by the modern ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq(), ata_sff_data_xfer(), and ata_sff_data_xfer32(). Also, remove the reference to non-existant ata_port_stop()... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-05-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: joydev - allow binding to button-only devices Input: elantech - ignore high bits in the position coordinates Input: elantech - allow forcing Elantech protocol Input: elantech - fix firmware version check Input: ati_remote - add some missing devices from lirc_atiusb Input: eeti_ts - cancel pending work when going to suspend Input: Add support of Synaptics Clickpad device Revert "Input: ALPS - add signature for HP Pavilion dm3 laptops" Input: psmouse - ignore parity error for basic protocols
2010-05-04tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot optionLi Zefan
Make it clear that event-list is a comma separated list of events. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B2F154C.2060503@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-04i2c-core: Erase pointer to clientdata on removalWolfram Sang
After discovering that a lot of i2c-drivers leave the pointer to their clientdata dangling, it was decided to let the core handle this issue. It is assumed that the core may access the private data after remove() as there are no guarantees for the lifetime of such pointers anyhow (see thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/21/68) Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2010-05-03Input: elantech - ignore high bits in the position coordinatesFlorian Ragwitz
In older versions of the elantech hardware/firmware those bits always were unset, so it didn't actually matter, but newer versions seem to use those high bits for something else, screwing up the coordinates we report to the input layer for those devices. Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-04-30Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer omap2_mcspi: small fixes of output data format omap2_mcspi: Flush posted writes spi: spi_device memory should be released instead of device. spi: release device claimed by bus_find_device_by_name of: check for IS_ERR() serial/mpc52xx_uart: Drop outdated comments gpio: potential null dereference
2010-04-30Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: update to the latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-29spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transferHector Palacios
The sample application spidev_test.c is using SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to do an SPI transfer. This ioctl returns the number of bytes successfully transmitted or a negative error code upon erroneous completion. The application however is returning an error if the result of the ioclt if the return value is 1. This makes the application to fail upon 1-byte length transfers. Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-04-27tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoffChase Douglas
The mod command went in as commit 64e7c440618998fd69eee6ab490b042d12248021 The traceon/traceoff commands went in as commit 23b4ff3aa479c9e3bb23cb6b2d0a97878399784a Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1272045759-32018-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lockSerge E. Hallyn
Change the credentials documentation to make it clear that the RCU read lock must be explicitly held when accessing credentials pointers in some other task than current. Holding a spinlock does not implicitly hold the RCU read lock. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>