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2009-09-23virtio: add virtio IDs fileFernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23Merge branch 'next' of ↵NeilBrown
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx into for-linus
2009-09-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵Anton Vorontsov
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c
2009-09-22regulator: Add some brief design documentationMark Brown
Provide some brief documentation of some of the design decisions that are made by the regulator API. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2009-09-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: kmemcheck: add missing braces to do-while in kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield kmemcheck: update documentation kmemcheck: depend on HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK kmemcheck: remove useless check kmemcheck: remove duplicated #include
2009-09-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (68 commits) nfsd4: nfsv4 clients should cross mountpoints nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req nfsd: return success for non-NFS4 nfs4_state_start nfsd41: Refactor create_client() nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1 nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked. ...
2009-09-22Merge 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: (34 commits) trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage() trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/ ...
2009-09-22hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB exampleEric B Munson
Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txtMinchan Kim
In Documentation/numastat.txt, it confused me. For example, there are nodes [0,1] in system. barrios:~$ cat /proc/zoneinfo | egrep 'numa|zone' Node 0, zone DMA numa_hit 33226 numa_miss 1739 numa_foreign 27978 .. .. Node 1, zone DMA numa_hit 307 numa_miss 46900 numa_foreign 0 1) In node 0, NUMA_MISS means it wanted to allocate page in node 1 but ended up with page in node 0 2) In node 0, NUMA_FOREIGN means it wanted to allocate page in node 0 but ended up with page from Node 1. But now, numastat explains it oppositely about (MISS, FOREIGN). Let's fix up with viewpoint of zone. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22oom: make oom_score to per-process valueKOSAKI Motohiro
oom-killer kills a process, not task. Then oom_score should be calculated as per-process too. it makes consistency more and makes speed up select_bad_process(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, documentation: Add a document on the kmem tracepointsMel Gorman
Knowing tracepoints exist is not quite the same as knowing what they should be used for. This patch adds a document giving a basic description of the kmem tracepoints and why they might be useful to a performance analyst. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance ↵Mel Gorman
analysis with tracepoints The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive. Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean. However, pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into "how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination. This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, page-allocator: add a postprocessing script for ↵Mel Gorman
page-allocator-related ftrace events This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the page-allocator-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication of who the most allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone lock was taken during the tracing period. Example output looks like Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain swapper-0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Xorg-3770 10603 5952 3685 6978 5996 194 192 0 0 0 0 0 0 modprobe-21397 51 0 0 86 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 xchat-5370 228 93 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 awesome-4317 32 32 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 thinkfan-3863 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hald-addon-stor-3935 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 akregator-4506 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 xmms-14888 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 khelper-12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Optionally, the output can include information on the parent or aggregate based on process name instead of aggregating based on each pid. Example output including parent information and stripped out the PID looks something like; Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain gdm-3756 :: Xorg-3770 3796 2976 99 3813 3224 104 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 init-1 :: hald-3892 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 git-21447 :: editor-21448 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 This says that Xorg allocated 3796 pages and it's parent process is gdm with a PID of 3756; The postprocessor parses the text output of tracing. While there is a binary format, the expectation is that the binary output can be readily translated into text and post-processed offline. Obviously if the text format changes, the parser will break but the regular expression parser is fairly rudimentary so should be readily adjustable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22pagemap clear_refs: modify to specify anon or mapped vma clearingMoussa A. Ba
The patch makes the clear_refs more versatile in adding the option to select anonymous pages or file backed pages for clearing. This addition has a measurable impact on user space application performance as it decreases the number of pagewalks in scenarios where one is only interested in a specific type of page (anonymous or file mapped). The patch adds anonymous and file backed filters to the clear_refs interface. echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on all pages echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on anonymous pages only echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs resets the bits on file backed pages only Any other value is ignored Signed-off-by: Moussa A. Ba <moussa.a.ba@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jared E. Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22ksm: add some documentationHugh Dickins
Add Documentation/vm/ksm.txt: how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22vm: document that setting vfs_cache_pressure to 0 isn't a good ideaJan Kara
Reported-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendationsAndi Kleen
Remove some very outdated recommendations in Documentation/memory.txt Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22hugetlb: clean up and update huge pages documentationLee Schermerhorn
Attempt to clarify huge page administration and usage, and updates the doucmentation to mention the balancing of huge pages across nodes when allocating and freeing. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22proc: document `guest' column in /proc/statEric Dumazet
We added a new column in cpuX lines of /proc/stat, to show the amount of time spent by a cpu servicing a guest, without updating Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22regulator: fix typosWolfram Sang
Fix a couple of typos I found while working with this subsystem. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2009-09-22regulator: update a filename in documentationWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2009-09-22Fix some regulator documentationLinus Walleij
This fixes a spelling error and an API function signature mismatch in the regulator documentation. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2009-09-21Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/profile.c: Switch /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask to seq_file tracing: Export trace_profile_buf symbols tracing/events: use list_for_entry_continue tracing: remove max_tracer_type_len function-graph: use ftrace_graph_funcs directly tracing: Remove markers tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer dynamically tracing: Factorize the events profile accounting
2009-09-21Merge 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: (222 commits) V4L/DVB (13033): pt1: Don't use a deprecated DMA_BIT_MASK macro V4L/DVB (13029): radio-si4713: remove #include <linux/version.h> V4L/DVB (13027): go7007: convert printks to v4l2_info V4L/DVB (13026): s2250-board: Implement brightness and contrast controls V4L/DVB (13025): s2250-board: Fix memory leaks V4L/DVB (13024): go7007: Implement vidioc_g_std and vidioc_querystd V4L/DVB (13023): go7007: Merge struct gofh and go declarations V4L/DVB (13022): go7007: Fix mpeg controls V4L/DVB (13021): go7007: Fix whitespace and line lengths V4L/DVB (13020): go7007: Updates to Kconfig and Makefile V4L/DVB (13019): video: initial support for ADV7180 V4L/DVB (13018): kzalloc failure ignored in au8522_probe() V4L/DVB (13017): gspca: kmalloc failure ignored in sd_start() V4L/DVB (13016): kmalloc failure ignored in lgdt3304_attach() and s921_attach() V4L/DVB (13015): kmalloc failure ignored in m920x_firmware_download() V4L/DVB (13014): Add support for Compro VideoMate E800 (DVB-T part only) V4L/DVB (13013): FM TX: si4713: Kconfig: Fixed two typos. V4L/DVB (13012): uvc: introduce missing kfree V4L/DVB (13011): Change tuner type of BeholdTV cards V4L/DVB (13009): gspca - stv06xx-hdcs: Reduce exposure range ...
2009-09-21nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentationJ. Bruce Fields
Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface, and an attempt to put missing features in context. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-09-21trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txtStephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo in tracing documentationMichal Sojka
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argumentFrans Pop
Allows users who use an IDE driver for their disk to use hpfall without having to modify the source. By default /dev/sda is used. Suggested by Christian Thaeter in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/25/505. While we're add it, improve error message if opening /dev/freefall fails. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harmChristian Thaeter
Improve the example code to be at least useable, as in not causing harm (as shown below). Code can still be improved further, but this adds some basic safeguards. 1. hpfall *MUST* mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE); itself! Since the Program sits and waits most of the time it becomes very likely swapped out. If it gets woken up when the laptop drops from the table while it is swapped out it actually triggers harddrive activity! 2. Daemonize hpfall using 'daemon(0,0)' (quick and dirty). 3. Give hpfall realtime priority. Should give a chance that it has less latency when woken up. Signed-off-by: Christian Thaeter <ct@pipapo.org> Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered stepMichael Brunner
This patch fixes a reference to step "Select e-mail destination." which has been renumbered from 4) to 5) in linux-2.6.22. Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <mibru@gmx.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"Uwe Kleine-Koenig
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov docMarton Nemeth
The correct name is CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, add the missing underscore. Signed-off-by: Marton Nemeth <nm127@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar
trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: doc: document missing value 2 for randomize-va-spaceHorst Schirmeier
The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible value 2 for randomize-va-space yet. While being there, doing some reformatting, fixing grammar problems and clarifying the correlations between randomize-va-space, kernel parameter "norandmaps" and the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option. Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: cleanup hpfall example code (checkpatch)Frans Pop
This patch makes hpfall.c conform to kernel coding style. I have not fixed the C99 // comments on two lines as they help indicate that those are not actually comments but incomplete code. Before: total: 10 errors, 6 warnings, 101 lines checked After: total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 99 lines checked Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-20Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits) perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help" tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record" perf: Add the timechart tool perf: Add a SVG helper library file tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data perf: Add a timestamp to fork events sched_clock: Make it NMI safe perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk() ...
2009-09-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c Merged in order that I can apply the Nomadik nand/onenand support patches.
2009-09-20kbuild: introduce ld-optionSam Ravnborg
ld-option is used to check if $(LD) supports a specific option. Based on patch from Andi Kleen. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> First use is to check if option -X is supported (upcoming patch). Theis is ne
2009-09-20kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoptionSam Ravnborg
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld. Renamed it to reflect this. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel scriptSam Ravnborg
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL to select a custom installkernel script when running make: make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install With this patch we are now more consistent across different architectures - they did not all support use of CROSS_COMPILE. The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change just because we change toolchain. The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no longer be installable. [Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint] This patch undos what Ian did in commit: 0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c08ce521e84e5bd3f8a46 ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh") The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes looks obvious. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin] Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm] Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh] Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86] Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64] Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64] Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r] Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k] Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc] Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc] Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390] Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-19mtd: maps: add mtd-ram support to physmap_ofWolfram Sang
Use physmap_of to access RAMs as mtd and add documenation for it. This approach is a lot less intrusive as adding an of-wrapper around plat-ram.c. As most extensions of plat-ram.c (e.g. custom map-functions) can't be mapped to the device tree anyhow, extending physmap_of seems to be the cleanest approach. Tested with a phyCORE-MPC5121e. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us> Cc: Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress@arcor.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-09-19intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option.David Woodhouse
Just make it depend on BROKEN for now, in case people scream really loud about it (and because we might want to keep some of this logic for an upcoming BIOS workaround, so I don't just want to rip it out entirely just yet). But for graphics devices, it really ought to be unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-09-19tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracerArjan van de Ven
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer, so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be tracked via "perf". This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer; its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'power-meter' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-19Merge branch 'asus' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-19hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power metersDarrick J. Wong
This driver exposes ACPI 4.0 compliant power meters as hardware monitoring devices. This second revision of the driver also exports the ACPI string info as sysfs attributes, a list of the devices that the meter measures, and will send ACPI notifications over the ACPI netlink socket. This latest revision only enables the power capping controls if it can be confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware and explains how the notification interfaces work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove default-y] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'thinkpad' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-19thinkpad-acpi: Fix procfs hotkey reset commandHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
echo "reset" > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey should do something non-useless, so instead of setting it to Fn+F2, Fn+F3, Fn+F5, set it to hotkey_recommended_mask. It is not like it will survive for much longer, anyway. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-19thinkpad-acpi: deprecate hotkey_bios_maskHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Some analysis of the ACPI DSDTs shows that the HKEY pre-enabled mask is always 0x80c (FN+F3,FN+F4 and FN+F12), which are the hotkeys that the second gen of HKEY firmware supported (the first gen didn't report any hotkeys, the second reported these tree hotkeys but had no mask support, and the third added mask support). So, this is probably some sort of backwards compatibility with older versions of the IBM ThinkVantage suite. We have no use for that, and I know of exactly ZERO users of that attribute, anyway. Start the process of getting rid of it. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>