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2009-12-16Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: ppc440spe-adma: adds updated ppc440spe adma driver iop-adma.c: use resource_size() dmaengine: clarify the meaning of the DMA_CTRL_ACK flag sh: stylistic improvements for the DMA driver dmaengine: fix dmatest to verify minimum transfer length and test buffer size sh: DMA driver has to specify its alignment requirements Add COH 901 318 DMA block driver v5
2009-12-16Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (116 commits) V4L/DVB (13698): pms: replace asm/uaccess.h to linux/uaccess.h V4L/DVB (13690): radio/si470x: #include <sched.h> V4L/DVB (13688): au8522: modify the attributes of local filter coefficients V4L/DVB (13687): cx231xx: use NULL when pointer is needed V4L/DVB: Davinci VPFE Capture: remove unused #include <linux/version.h> V4L/DVB (13685): Correct code taking the size of a pointer V4L/DVB (13684): Fix some cut-and-paste noise in dib0090.h V4L/DVB (13683): sanio-ms: clean up init, exit and id_table V4L/DVB (13682): dib8000: make some constant static V4L/DVB: lgs8gxx: Use shifts rather than multiply/divide when possible V4L/DVB (13680b): DocBook/media: create links for included sources V4L/DVB (13680a): DocBook/media: copy images after building HTML V4L/DVB (13678): Add support for yet another DvbWorld, TeVii and Prof USB devices V4L/DVB (13676): configurable IRQ mode on NetUP Dual DVB-S2 CI; IRQ from CAM processing (CI interface works faster) V4L/DVB (13674): stv090x: Add DiSEqC envelope mode V4L/DVB (13673): lnbp21: Implement 22 kHz tone control V4L/DVB (13671): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: Remove frame size page alignment V4L/DVB (13670): soc-camera: Add mt9t112 camera driver V4L/DVB (13669): tw9910: Add sync polarity support V4L/DVB (13668): tw9910: remove cropping ...
2009-12-16seq_file: use proc_create() in documentationAlexey Dobriyan
Using create_proc_entry() + ->proc_fops assignment is racy because ->proc_fops will be NULL for some time, use proc_create() to avoid race. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16proc: remove docbook and exampleAlexey Dobriyan
Example is outdated, it still uses old ->read_proc interfaces and "fb" example is plain racy. There are better examples all over the tree. Docbook itself says almost nothing about /proc and contain quite a number of simply wrong facts, e.g. device nodes support. What it does is describing at great length interface which are going to be removed. There are Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt in exchange. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16doc: SubmitChecklist, add ioctls, remove OSDL referenceRandy Dunlap
If a patch adds ioctls, then Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt should also be updated. Remove reference to the OSDL PLM build farm. 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>
2009-12-16viafb: documentation updateHarald Welte
We now support the VX855, and the VX800 is no longer unaccellerated. viafb_video_dev was removed as it was useless. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw> Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@viatech.com.cn> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16gpiolib: add support for changing value polarity in sysfsJani Nikula
Drivers may use gpiolib sysfs as part of their public user space interface. The GPIO number and polarity might change from board to board. The gpio_export_link() call can be used to hide the GPIO number from user space. Add support for also hiding the GPIO line polarity changes from user space. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16vt: make the default cursor shape configurableClemens Ladisch
For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor shape. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13680b): DocBook/media: create links for included sourcesBen Hutchings
If docs are being built in a separate directory, xmlto and xsltproc can't find included sources. Make links back to the source directory. I would much prefer to have xmlto and xsltproc look in the source directory for included entities but couldn't see how to do that. This needs to be solved in some way for 2.6.32, even if this patch isn't the right way to do it. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13680a): DocBook/media: copy images after building HTMLBen Hutchings
The rule for %.html removes the output directory, so there is no point in copying images before building HTML. Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 10 +++++----- Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13651): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: document the scaling and cropping ↵Guennadi Liakhovetski
algorithm The sh_mobile_ceu_camera driver implements an advanced algorithm, combining scaling and cropping on the client and on the host. Due to its complexity the algorithm deserves separate documentation. create mode 100644 Documentation/video4linux/sh_mobile_ceu_camera.txt Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: Add soft page offline supportAndi Kleen
This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page offlining controlled from user space. It doesn't kill anything, just tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the page away. This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead it can be offlined early and avoided. The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too. We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep(). This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work. This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution currently. When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab cache which might own the page. This could be potentially improved later. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes. [Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentationAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filterAndi Kleen
The hwpoison test suite need to inject hwpoison to a collection of selected task pages, and must not touch pages not owned by them and thus kill important system processes such as init. (But it's OK to mis-hwpoison free/unowned pages as well as shared clean pages. Mis-hwpoison of shared dirty pages will kill all tasks, so the test suite will target all or non of such tasks in the first place.) The memory cgroup serves this purpose well. We can put the target processes under the control of a memory cgroup, and tell the hwpoison injection code to only kill pages associated with some active memory cgroup. The prerequisite for doing hwpoison stress tests with mem_cgroup is, the mem_cgroup code tracks task pages _accurately_ (unless page is locked). Which we believe is/should be true. The benefits are simplification of hwpoison injector code. Also the mem_cgroup code will automatically be tested by hwpoison test cases. The alternative interfaces pin-pfn/unpin-pfn can also delegate the (process and page flags) filtering functions reliably to user space. However prototype implementation shows that this scheme adds more complexity than we wanted. Example test case: mkdir /cgroup/hwpoison usemem -m 100 -s 1000 & echo `jobs -p` > /cgroup/hwpoison/tasks memcg_ino=$(ls -id /cgroup/hwpoison | cut -f1 -d' ') echo $memcg_ino > /debug/hwpoison/corrupt-filter-memcg page-types -p `pidof init` --hwpoison # shall do nothing page-types -p `pidof usemem` --hwpoison # poison its pages [AK: Fix documentation] [Add fix for problem noticed by Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>; dentry in the css could be NULL] CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> CC: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> CC: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: add page flags filterWu Fengguang
When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) == value). - corrupt-filter-flags-mask - corrupt-filter-flags-value This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages. Strictly speaking, the buddy pages requires taking zone lock, to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a "was buddy but now allocated to someone" page. However we can just do nothing because we set PG_locked in the beginning, this prevents the page allocator from allocating it to someone. (It will BUG() on the unexpected PG_locked, which is fine for hwpoison testing.) [AK: Add select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to satisfy dependency] CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page typesWu Fengguang
__memory_failure()'s workflow is set PG_hwpoison //... unset PG_hwpoison if didn't pass hwpoison filter That could kill unrelated process if it happens to page fault on the page with the (temporary) PG_hwpoison. The race should be big enough to appear in stress tests. Fix it by grabbing the page and checking filter at inject time. This also avoids the very noisy "Injecting memory failure..." messages. - we don't touch madvise() based injection, because the filters are generally not necessary for it. - if we want to apply the filters to h/w aided injection, we'd better to rearrange the logic in __memory_failure() instead of this patch. AK: fix documentation, use drain all, cleanups CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: add fs/device filtersWu Fengguang
Filesystem data/metadata present the most tricky-to-isolate pages. It requires careful code review and stress testing to get them right. The fs/device filter helps to target the stress tests to some specific filesystem pages. The filter condition is block device's major/minor numbers: - corrupt-filter-dev-major - corrupt-filter-dev-minor When specified (non -1), only page cache pages that belong to that device will be poisoned. The filters are checked reliably on the locked and refcounted page. Haicheng: clear PG_hwpoison and drop bad page count if filter not OK AK: Add documentation CC: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16HWPOISON: Add unpoisoning supportWu Fengguang
The unpoisoning interface is useful for stress testing tools to reclaim poisoned pages (to prevent OOM) There is no hardware level unpoisioning, so this cannot be used for real memory errors, only for software injected errors. Note that it may leak pages silently - those who have been removed from LRU cache, but not isolated from page cache/swap cache at hwpoison time. Especially the stress test of dirty swap cache pages shall reboot system before exhausting memory. AK: Fix comments, add documentation, add printks, rename symbol Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16page-types: add standard GPL license headerWu Fengguang
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16Merge branch 'debug-aml' into releaseLen Brown
2009-12-15Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
2009-12-16Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.33' into releaseLen Brown
2009-12-16thinkpad-acpi: bump version to 0.24Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: basic ALSA mixer support (v2)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add the basic ALSA mixer functionality. The mixer is event-driven, and will work fine on IBM ThinkPads. I expect Lenovo ThinkPads will cause some trouble with the event interface. Heavily based on work by Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> and ideas from Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: disable volume controlHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Disable volume control by default. It can be enabled at module load time by a module parameter (volume_control=1). The audio control mixer that thinkpad-acpi interacts with is fully functional without any drivers, and operated by hotkeys. The idea behind the console audio control is that the human operator is the only one that can interact with it. The ThinkVantage suite in Windows does not allow any software-based overrides, and only does OSD (on-screen-display) functions. The Linux driver will, with the addition of the ALSA interface, try to follow and enforce the ThinkVantage UI design: The user is supposed to use the keyboard hotkeys to interact with the console audio control. The kernel and the desktop environment is supposed to cooperate to provide proper user feedback through on-screen-display functions. Distros are urged to not to enable volume control by default. Enabling this must be a local admin's decision. This is the reason why there is no Kconfig option. Keep in mind that all ThinkPads have a normal, main mixer (AC97 or HDA) for regular software-based audio control. We are not talking about that mixer here. Advanced users are, of course, free to enable volume control and do as they please. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: support MUTE-only ThinkPadsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Lenovo removed the extra mixer since the T61 and thereabouts. Newer Lenovo models only have the mute gate function, and leave the volume control to the HDA mixer. Until a way to automatically query the firmware about its audio control capabilities is discovered (there might not be any), use a white/black list. We will likely need to ask T60 (old and new model) and Z60/Z61 users whether they have volume control to populate the black/white list. Meanwhile, provide a volume_capabilities parameter that can be used to override the defaults. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: volume subdriver rewriteHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
I don't trust the coupled EC writes and SMI calls the current volume control code does very much, although it is exactly what the IBM DSDTs seem to do (they never do more than a single step though). Change the driver to stop issuing SMIs, and just drive the EC directly to the desired level (DSDTs seem to confirm this will work even on very old models like the 570 and 600e/x). We checkpoint directly to NVRAM (this can be turned off) at suspend/shutdown/driver unload, which from what I can see in tbp, should also work on every ThinkPad. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15Merge branch 'thermal-2.6.33' into releaseLen Brown
2009-12-15Merge branch 'asus' into releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13619): v4l2-spec: Adds EBUSY error code for S_STD and QUERYSTD ioctlsMuralidharan Karicheri
During review of Video Timing API documentation, Hans Verkuil had a comment on adding EBUSY error code for VIDIOC_S_STD and VIDIOC_QUERYSTD ioctls. This patch updates the document for this. Signed-off-by: Muralidharan Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13573): v4l2-spec: updated revision history, updated version to 2.6.33.Hans Verkuil
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13572): v4l2-spec: Digital Video Timings API documentationMuralidharan Karicheri
This patch updates the v4l2-dvb documentation for the new video timings API added. Also updated the document based on comments from Hans Verkuil. Signed-off-by: Muralidharan Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13562): gspca - doc: Update webcam list.Jean-Francois Moine
Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-16V4L/DVB (13549): v4l: Add video_device_node_name functionLaurent Pinchart
Many drivers access the device number (video_device::v4l2_devnode::num) in order to print the video device node name. Add and use a helper function to retrieve the video_device node name. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-12-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (80 commits) dm snapshot: use merge origin if snapshot invalid dm snapshot: report merge failure in status dm snapshot: merge consecutive chunks together dm snapshot: trigger exceptions in remaining snapshots during merge dm snapshot: delay merging a chunk until writes to it complete dm snapshot: queue writes to chunks being merged dm snapshot: add merging dm snapshot: permit only one merge at once dm snapshot: support barriers in snapshot merge target dm snapshot: avoid allocating exceptions in merge dm snapshot: rework writing to origin dm snapshot: add merge target dm exception store: add merge specific methods dm snapshot: create function for chunk_is_tracked wait dm snapshot: make bio optional in __origin_write dm mpath: reject messages when device is suspended dm: export suspended state to targets dm: rename dm_suspended to dm_suspended_md dm: swap target postsuspend call and setting suspended flag dm crypt: add plain64 iv ...
2009-12-15lis3: update documentation to match latest changesSamu Onkalo
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/q/g/ (Randy)] Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Éric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15lis3: update documentation and commentsÉric Piel
Most of the documentation and comments were written when the driver was only supporting one type of chip, only via ACPI/HP. Update the info to the much clearer understanding that we have now. Signed-off-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hwmon: w83627ehf updatesDaniel J Blueman
Add control of fan minimum turn-on output levels, decoupling it from the fan turn-off output level. Add control of rate of change of fan output level. These in turn allow lower turn-off rotor speed and smoother transitions for better thermal and acoustic control authority. Add support for constant fan speed and proportional-response operations modes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: David Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@gmail.com> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15kallsyms: remove deprecated print_fn_descriptor_symbol()Amerigo Wang
According to feature-removal-schedule.txt, it is the time to remove print_fn_descriptor_symbol(). And a quick grep shows that it no longer has any callers. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometersMichael Hennerich
This driver supports the non-volatile digital potentiometers via I2C: AD5258, AD5259, AD5251, AD5252, AD5253, AD5254, and AD5255 It provides a sysfs interface to each device for reading/writing which is documented in Documentation/misc-devices/ad525x_dpot.txt. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Verges <chrisv@cyberswitching.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15procfs: allow threads to rename siblings via /proc/pid/tasks/tid/commjohn stultz
Setting a thread's comm to be something unique is a very useful ability and is helpful for debugging complicated threaded applications. However currently the only way to set a thread name is for the thread to name itself via the PR_SET_NAME prctl. However, there may be situations where it would be advantageous for a thread dispatcher to be naming the threads its managing, rather then having the threads self-describe themselves. This sort of behavior is available on other systems via the pthread_setname_np() interface. This patch exports a task's comm via proc/pid/comm and proc/pid/task/tid/comm interfaces, and allows thread siblings to write to these values. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Fulton <fultonm@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flagJie Zhang
The NOMMU code currently clears all anonymous mmapped memory. While this is what we want in the default case, all memory allocation from userspace under NOMMU has to go through this interface, including malloc() which is allowed to return uninitialized memory. This can easily be a significant performance penalty. So for constrained embedded systems were security is irrelevant, allow people to avoid clearing memory unnecessarily. This also alters the ELF-FDPIC binfmt such that it obtains uninitialised memory for the brk and stack region. Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pagesHugh Dickins
Now that ksm pages are swappable, and the known holes plugged, remove mention of unswappable kernel pages from KSM documentation and comments. Remove the totalram_pages/4 initialization of max_kernel_pages. In fact, remove max_kernel_pages altogether - we can reinstate it if removal turns out to break someone's script; but if we later want to limit KSM's memory usage, limiting the stable nodes would not be an effective approach. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/nodeAlex Chiang
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15mm: add numa node symlink for memory section in sysfsAlex Chiang
Commit c04fc586c (mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs) created symlinks from nodes to memory sections, e.g. /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135 If you're examining the memory section though and are wondering what node it might belong to, you can find it by grovelling around in sysfs, but it's a little cumbersome. Add a reverse symlink for each memory section that points back to the node to which it belongs. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hugetlb: handle memory hot-plug eventsLee Schermerhorn
Register per node hstate attributes only for nodes with memory. As suggested by David Rientjes. With Memory Hotplug, memory can be added to a memoryless node and a node with memory can become memoryless. Therefore, add a memory on/off-line notifier callback to [un]register a node's attributes on transition to/from memoryless state. N.B., Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression. i.e., no memory hotplug testing. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hugetlb: use only nodes with memory for huge pagesLee Schermerhorn
Register per node hstate sysfs attributes only for nodes with memory. Global replacement of 'all online nodes" with "all nodes with memory" in mm/hugetlb.c. Suggested by David Rientjes. A subsequent patch will handle adding/removing of per node hstate sysfs attributes when nodes transition to/from memoryless state via memory hotplug. NOTE: this patch has not been tested with memoryless nodes. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hugetlb: update hugetlb documentation for NUMA controlsLee Schermerhorn
Update the kernel huge tlb documentation to describe the numa memory policy based huge page management. Additionaly, the patch includes a fair amount of rework to improve consistency, eliminate duplication and set the context for documenting the memory policy interaction. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15page-types: exit early when invoked with -d|--describeAlex Chiang
On a system with large amount of memory (256GB), invoking page-types can take quite a long time, which is unreasonable considering the user only wants a description of the flags: # time ./page-types -d 0x10 0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty real 0m34.285s user 0m1.966s sys 0m32.313s This is because we still walk the entire address range. Exiting early seems like a reasonble solution: # time ./page-types -d 0x10 0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty real 0m0.007s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15page-types: whitespace alignmentAlex Chiang
Align the output when page-type -h is invoked. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>