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2010-08-06Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (30 commits) PCI: update for owner removal from struct device_attribute PCI: Fix warnings when CONFIG_DMI unset PCI: Do not run NVidia quirks related to MSI with MSI disabled x86/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: MSI: Restore read_msi_msg_desc(); add get_cached_msi_msg_desc() PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN PCI: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MAX_SEGMENT_{SIZE|BOUNDARY} PCI: disable mmio during bar sizing PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access PCI: Default PCIe ASPM control to on and require !EMBEDDED to disable PCI: kernel oops on access to pci proc file while hot-removal PCI: pci-sysfs: remove casts from void* ACPI: Disable ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe PCI hotplug: make sure child bridges are enabled at hotplug time PCI hotplug: shpchp: Removed check for hotplug of display devices PCI hotplug: pciehp: Fixed return value sign for pciehp_unconfigure_device PCI: Don't enable aspm before drivers have had a chance to veto it ...
2010-08-05Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZOPhillip Lougher
Update compression types supported and add some help text for the LZO Kconfig option. Also add missing "default n" line and make some trivial whitespace cleanups too. Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-08-05sysfs: Fix one more signature discrepancy between sysfs implementation and docs.Ira Weiny
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <weiny2@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05sysfs: fix discrepancies between implementation and documentationBart Van Assche
Fix all discrepancies I know of between the sysfs implementation and its documentation. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: update broken web addresses. fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen" hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26 drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE comment typo fixes: charater => character fix comment typos concerning "challenge" arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc reiserfs: typo comment fix update email address ...
2010-08-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits) phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579 hso: Add new product ID can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue" net: cleanup inclusion phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support u32: negative offset fix net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev" igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0 e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams cxgb4: update driver version cxgb4: add new PCI IDs ... Manually fix up conflicts in: - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration infrastructure changes - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support and cleaning up the IDs - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-30PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resourcesAlex Williamson
PCI sysfs resource files currently only allow mmap'ing. On x86 this works fine for memory backed BARs, but doesn't work at all for I/O port backed BARs. Add read/write to I/O port PCI sysfs resource files to allow userspace access to these device regions. Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-07-26xfs: remove obsolete osyncisosync mount optionChristoph Hellwig
Since Linux 2.6.33 the kernel has support for real O_SYNC, which made the osyncisosync option a no-op. Warn the users about this and remove the mount flag for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add nodiscard mount optionRyusuke Konishi
Nilfs has "discard" mount option which issues discard/TRIM commands to underlying block device, but it lacks a complementary option and has no way to disable the feature through remount. This adds "nodiscard" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-23nilfs2: add barrier mount optionRyusuke Konishi
Nilfs enables write barriers by default and has "nobarrier" mount option to disable this feature. But it lacks the complementary option and has no way to re-enable the feature on remount. This adds "barrier" option to resolve this imbalance. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-07-22fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-workTejun Heo
Make fscache object state transition callbacks use workqueue instead of slow-work. New dedicated unbound CPU workqueue fscache_object_wq is created. get/put callbacks are renamed and modified to take @object and called directly from the enqueue wrapper and the work function. While at it, make all open coded instances of get/put to use fscache_get/put_object(). * Unbound workqueue is used. * work_busy() output is printed instead of slow-work flags in object debugging outputs. They mean basically the same thing bit-for-bit. * sysctl fscache.object_max_active added to control concurrency. The default value is nr_cpus clamped between 4 and WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE. * slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is replaced with fscache private implementation fscache_object_sleep_till_congested() which waits on fscache_object_wq congestion. * debugfs support is dropped for now. Tracing API based debug facility is planned to be added. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-06-04Merge branch 'master' into for-linusAlex Elder
2010-06-03ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS recordWu Fengguang
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03xfs: remove done roadmap item from xfs-delayed-logging-design.txtChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-05-27fs: introduce new truncate sequencenpiggin@suse.de
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced previously should be used. simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go away. simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache). To implement the new truncate sequence: - filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in the setattr method rather than ->truncate. - vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed in the fs code. - convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin, cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous). - inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode. - make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence. Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle block deallocation). Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27drop unused dentry argument to ->fsyncChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27Documentation/filesystems/Locking: update documentation on llseek() wrt BKLJan Blunck
The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting file->f_pos. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus: squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get squashfs: constify xattr handlers squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix squashfs: add xattr support configure option squashfs: add new extended inode types squashfs: add support for xattr reading squashfs: add xattr id support
2010-05-26squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layoutPhillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2010-05-25Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed xfs: enable background pushing of the CIL xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code xfs: Delayed logging design documentation xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking xfs: make the log ticket ID available outside the log infrastructure xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace xfs: modify buffer item reference counting xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags xfs: Don't reuse the same transaction ID for duplicated transactions.
2010-05-25mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount optionLee Schermerhorn
Update Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt to describe the interaction of tmpfs mount option memory policy with tasks' cpuset mems_allowed. Note: the mount(8) man page [in the util-linux-ng package] requires similiar updates. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24Merge branch 'delayed-logging-for-2.6.35' into for-linusAlex Elder
2010-05-24xfs: Delayed logging design documentationDave Chinner
Document the design of the delayed logging implementation. This includes assumptions made, dead ends followed, the reasoning behind the structuring of the code, the layout of various structures, how things fit together, traps and pit-falls avoided, etc. This is all too much to document in the code itself, so do it in a separate file. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (31 commits) dquot: Detect partial write error to quota file in write_blk() and add printk_ratelimit for quota error messages ocfs2: Fix lock inversion in quotas during umount ocfs2: Use __dquot_transfer to avoid lock inversion ocfs2: Fix NULL pointer deref when writing local dquot ocfs2: Fix estimate of credits needed for quota allocation ocfs2: Fix quota locking ocfs2: Avoid unnecessary block mapping when refreshing quota info ocfs2: Do not map blocks from local quota file on each write quota: Refactor dquot_transfer code so that OCFS2 can pass in its references quota: unify quota init condition in setattr quota: remove sb_has_quota_active in get/set_info quota: unify ->set_dqblk quota: unify ->get_dqblk ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4 quota: Make quota stat accounting lockless. suppress warning: "quotatypes" defined but not used ext3: Fix waiting on transaction during fsync jbd: Provide function to check whether transaction will issue data barrier ufs: add ufs speciffic ->setattr call BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem ...
2010-05-21ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4Eric Sandeen
ext4 was updated to accept barrier/nobarrier mount options in addition to the older barrier=0/1. The barrier story is complex enough, we should help people by making the options the same at least, even if the defaults are different. This patch allows the barrier/nobarrier mount options for ext3, while keeping nobarrier the default. It also unconditionally displays barrier status in show_options, and prints a message at mount time if barriers are not enabled, just as ext4 does. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-21sysfs-namespaces: add a high-level Documentation fileSerge E. Hallyn
The first three paragraphs are almost verbatim taken from Eric's commit message on the patch introducing network ns tags. The next two paragraphs I wrote to be a brief high level overview. The last section is taken from the commit message on "Implement sysfs tagged directory support", but updated. Hopefully correctly. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (23 commits) nilfs2: disallow remount of snapshot from/to a regular mount nilfs2: use huge_encode_dev/huge_decode_dev nilfs2: update comment on deactivate_super at nilfs_get_sb nilfs2: replace MS_VERBOSE with MS_SILENT nilfs2: add missing initialization of s_mode nilfs2: fix misuse of open_bdev_exclusive/close_bdev_exclusive nilfs2: enlarge s_volume_name member in nilfs_super_block nilfs2: use checkpoint number instead of timestamp to select super block nilfs2: add missing endian conversion on super block magic number nilfs2: make nilfs_sc_*_ops static nilfs2: add kernel doc comments to persistent object allocator functions nilfs2: change sc_timer from a pointer to an embedded one in struct nilfs_sc_info nilfs2: remove nilfs_segctor_init() in segment.c nilfs2: insert checkpoint number in segment summary header nilfs2: add a print message after loading nilfs2 nilfs2: cleanup multi kmem_cache_{create,destroy} code nilfs2: move out checksum routines to segment buffer code nilfs2: move pointer to super root block into logs nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' mode nilfs2: Combine nilfs_btree_release_path() and nilfs_btree_free_path() ...
2010-05-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: GFS2: Fix typo GFS2: stuck in inode wait, no glocks stuck GFS2: Eliminate useless err variable GFS2: Fix writing to non-page aligned gfs2_quota structures GFS2: Add some useful messages GFS2: fix quota state reporting GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements GFS2: glock livelock GFS2: Clean up stuffed file copying GFS2: docs update GFS2: Remove space from slab cache name
2010-05-21Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (47 commits) ocfs2: Silence a gcc warning. ocfs2: Don't retry xattr set in case value extension fails. ocfs2:dlm: avoid dlm->ast_lock lockres->spinlock dependency break ocfs2: Reset xattr value size after xa_cleanup_value_truncate(). fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use kstrdup fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast Ocfs2: Optimize punching-hole code. Ocfs2: Make ocfs2_find_cpos_for_left_leaf() public. Ocfs2: Fix hole punching to correctly do CoW during cluster zeroing. Ocfs2: Optimize ocfs2 truncate to use ocfs2_remove_btree_range() instead. ocfs2: Block signals for mkdir/link/symlink/O_CREAT. ocfs2: Wrap signal blocking in void functions. ocfs2/dlm: Increase o2dlm lockres hash size ocfs2: Make ocfs2_extend_trans() really extend. ocfs2/trivial: Code cleanup for allocation reservation. ocfs2: make ocfs2_adjust_resv_from_alloc simple. ocfs2: Make nointr a default mount option ocfs2/dlm: Make o2dlm domain join/leave messages KERN_NOTICE o2net: log socket state changes ocfs2: print node # when tcp fails ...
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits) vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration. EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup EEPROM: Header file cleanup agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned PCI: make bitfield unsigned jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed cciss: fix shadows sparse warning doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore. uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls fix "seperate" typos in comments cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections doc: Change urls for sparse Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment i2o: cleanup some exit paths Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c ...
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 '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
2010-05-13nfsd4: 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>
2010-05-11revert "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>
2010-05-10doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Replace the introduced i_sem by an i_mutex in the filesystem locking documentation. This was introduced [1] after all occurrences were already replaced in the same text [2]. However, the term "inode semaphore" has not been replaced then, and it's replaced now. [1] afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 [2] a7bc02f4f47fd0e7860c6589f0ad000d1476f7a3 Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10fix "seperate" typos in commentsAnand Gadiyar
s/seperate/separate Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-10nilfs2: change default of 'errors' mount option to 'remount-ro' modeRyusuke Konishi
Like ext3, nilfs has 'errors' mount option to allow specifying desired behavior on severe errors. Currently, the default action is 'errors=continue' and has potential to advance filesystem corruption for severe errors. This will change the action to 'errors=remount-ro' to avoid the issue. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2010-05-05ocfs2: Add dir_resv_level mount optionMark Fasheh
The default behavior for directory reservations stays the same, but we add a mount option so people can tweak the size of directory reservations according to their workloads. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05ocfs2: change default reservation window sizesMark Fasheh
The default reservation size of 4 (32-bit windows) is a bit too ambitious. Scale it back to 16 bits (resv_level=2). I have been testing various sizes on a 4-node cluster which runs a mixed workload that is heavily threaded. With a 256MB local alloc, I get *roughly* the following levels of average file fragmentation: resv_level=0 70% resv_level=1 21% resv_level=2 23% resv_level=3 24% resv_level=4 60% resv_level=5 did not test resv_level=6 60% resv_level=2 seemed like a good compromise between not letting windows be too small, but not so big that heavier workloads will immediately suffer without tuning. This patch also change the behavior of directory reservations - they now track file reservations. The previous compromise of giving directory windows only 8 bits wound up fragmenting more at some window sizes because file allocations had smaller unused windows to poach from. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-05-05ocfs2: allocation reservationsMark Fasheh
This patch improves Ocfs2 allocation policy by allowing an inode to reserve a portion of the local alloc bitmap for itself. The reserved portion (allocation window) is advisory in that other allocation windows might steal it if the local alloc bitmap becomes full. Otherwise, the reservations are honored and guaranteed to be free. When the local alloc window is moved to a different portion of the bitmap, existing reservations are discarded. Reservation windows are represented internally by a red-black tree. Within that tree, each node represents the reservation window of one inode. An LRU of active reservations is also maintained. When new data is written, we allocate it from the inodes window. When all bits in a window are exhausted, we allocate a new one as close to the previous one as possible. Should we not find free space, an existing reservation is pulled off the LRU and cannibalized. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2010-04-23Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriateFrancis Galiegue
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant. Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-23Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
2010-04-13Merge branch 'linus' into irq/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Get the upstream IRQF_DISABLED related changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-059p: documentation updateSripathi Kodi
This patch adds documentation for new 9P options introduced in 2.6.34. Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-03-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (28 commits) ceph: update discussion list address in MAINTAINERS ceph: some documentations fixes ceph: fix use after free on mds __unregister_request ceph: avoid loaded term 'OSD' in documention ceph: fix possible double-free of mds request reference ceph: fix session check on mds reply ceph: handle kmalloc() failure ceph: propagate mds session allocation failures to caller ceph: make write_begin wait propagate ERESTARTSYS ceph: fix snap rebuild condition ceph: avoid reopening osd connections when address hasn't changed ceph: rename r_sent_stamp r_stamp ceph: fix connection fault con_work reentrancy problem ceph: prevent dup stale messages to console for restarting mds ceph: fix pg pool decoding from incremental osdmap update ceph: fix mds sync() race with completing requests ceph: only release unused caps with mds requests ceph: clean up handle_cap_grant, handle_caps wrt session mutex ceph: fix session locking in handle_caps, ceph_check_caps ceph: drop unnecessary WARN_ON in caps migration ...
2010-03-29ceph: some documentations fixesCheng Renquan
New documentation should have an entry in the 00-INDEX. Correct git urls. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-03-29GFS2: docs updateAndrea Gelmini
Now http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ is redirected to http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/ Also fixed tabs in the end. Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-24doc: add the documentation for mpol=localKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option) added new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation. This patch does it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24genirq: Expose irq_desc->node in proc/irqDimitri Sivanich
Expose irq_desc->node as /proc/irq/*/node. This file provides device hardware locality information for apps desiring to include hardware locality in irq mapping decisions. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>