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Randy Dunlap
b8a367935f pnp: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix PNP docbook warnings:

Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/core.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/driver.c): no structured comments found

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
c8facbb621 various doc/kernel-parameters fixes
- tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean
- correct some source file names
- remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree)
- removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:37 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7f8e00f2b9 update dontdiff file
Updates based on recent .gitignore updates:

*.o.*: Says Alexey Dobriyan:
These are presumably temporary gcc files, which aren't interesting.

setup.bin, setup.elf: new x86 boot code files (from Matthew Wilcox)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:36 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
f285ea0580 kobject: update documentation
Update kobject documentation:

- Update structure definitions.
- Remove documentation of removed struct subsystem.

(First shot, uevent_ops probably need some documentation as well.)

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:13 -07:00
Juan Lang
a2765e81d8 stable_api_nonsense.txt: Disambiguate the use of "this" by using "that" to refer to the syscall interface
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
30b1b28001 Fix Doc/sysfs-rules typos
Fix typos only (spelling, grammar, duplicate words, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
Tsugikazu Shibata
8b43626f0c HOWTO: sync Japanese HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:11 -07:00
IKEDA, Munehiro
6e3eb09938 HOWTO: adjust translation header of Japanese stable_api_nonsense.txt
Signed-off-by: IKEDA, Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9873aed5a9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] Fix sclp_vt220 error handling.
  [S390] cio: Reorganize initialization.
  [S390] cio: Make CIO_* macros safe if dbfs are not available.
  [S390] cio: Clean up messages.
  [S390] Fix IRQ tracing.
  [S390] vmur: fix diag14_read.
  [S390] Wire up sys_fallocate.
  [S390] add types.h include to s390_ext.h
  [S390] cio: Remove deprecated rdc/rcd.
  [S390] Get rid of new section mismatch warnings.
  [S390] sclp: kill unused SCLP config option.
  [S390] cio: Remove remains of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
  [S390] cio: css_sch_device_register() can be made static.
  [S390] Improve __smp_call_function_map.
  [S390] Convert to smp_call_function_single.
2007-07-28 19:33:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8e8ef2971b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  docbook: add pipes, other fixes
  blktrace: use cpu_clock() instead of sched_clock()
  bsg: Fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  [patch] QUEUE_FLAG_READFULL QUEUE_FLAG_WRITEFULL comment fix
2007-07-28 19:31:13 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
8059862c63 [S390] cio: Remove deprecated rdc/rcd.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118481061928246&w=2 seems to
indicate disfavour of "deprecated", so let's just kill it now.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-07-27 12:29:18 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
79685b8dee docbook: add pipes, other fixes
Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c.
Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-27 08:08:51 +02:00
Chuck Ebbert
c99c108ac3 AGP: document boot options
Add documentation for AGP boot options.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2007-07-27 10:46:20 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
257f49251c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  [PATCH] sched: debug feature - make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakable
  [PATCH] sched: add above_background_load() function
  [PATCH] sched: update Documentation/sched-stats.txt
  [PATCH] sched: mark sysrq_sched_debug_show() static
  [PATCH] sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clock
  [PATCH] sched: remove unused rq->load_balance_class
  [PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism
  [PATCH] sched: increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ
2007-07-26 13:59:59 -07:00
Rusty Russell
f56a384e98 lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEs
Documentation: The FIXMEs

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell
dde797899a lguest: documentation IV: Launcher
Documentation: The Launcher

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:17 -07:00
Rusty Russell
f938d2c892 lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.

So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:35:16 -07:00
Joachim Deguara
b762f3ffb7 [PATCH] sched: update Documentation/sched-stats.txt
While learning about schedstats I found that the documentation in the tree
is old.  I updated it and found some interesting stuff like schedstats
version 14 is the same as version and version 13 never saw a kernel
release!  Also there are 6 fields in the current schedstats that are not
used anymore.  Nick had made them irrelevant in commit
476d139c21 but never removed them.

Thanks to Rick's perl script who I borrowed some of the updated descriptions
from.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b2e961eb2e Merge branch 'request-queue-t' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'request-queue-t' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  [BLOCK] Add request_queue_t and mark it deprecated
  [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
2007-07-24 12:26:44 -07:00
David Brownell
be1ff386e7 minor gpio doc update
Fix doc bug noted by Uwe Kleine-König:  gpio_set_direction() is long
gone, replaced by gpio_direction_input() and gpio_direction_output().

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-24 12:24:59 -07:00
Rusty Russell
6570c45995 link lguest example launcher non-static
S.Caglar Onur points out that many distributions don't ship a static
zlib.  Unfortunately the launcher currently maps virtual device memory
where shared libraries want to go.

The solution is to pre-scan the args to figure out how much memory we
have, then allocate devices above that, rather than down from the top
possible address.  This also turns out to be simpler.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-24 12:24:59 -07:00
Jens Axboe
165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Linus Nilsson
f56d35e7aa Documentation: Fix a mispelt "probably" in SubmittingPatches.
Fix a typo in SubmittingPatches where "probably" was spelt "probabally".

Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:49:53 -07:00
Linus Nilsson
e3202262ec DocBook: Change a headline in kernel-locking to list all three main types of locking.
Change a headline to reflect that there are three main types of kernel
locking, not two.

Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:49:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e6f194d8f6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (60 commits)
  [SCSI] libsas: make ATA functions selectable by a config option
  [SCSI] bsg: unexport sg v3 helper functions
  [SCSI] bsg: fix bsg_unregister_queue
  [SCSI] bsg: make class backlinks
  [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add support for 9690SA
  [SCSI] bsg: fix bsg_register_queue error path
  [SCSI] ESP: Increase ESP_BUS_TIMEOUT to 275.
  [SCSI] libsas: fix scr_read/write users and update the libata documentation
  [SCSI] mpt fusion: update Kconfig help
  [SCSI] scsi_transport_sas: add destructor for bsg
  [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: buggered kmalloc()
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k2.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add ISP25XX support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use pci_try_set_mwi().
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Re-factor isp_operations to static structures.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Validate mid-layer 'underflow' during check-condition handling.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct setting of 'current' and 'supported' speeds during FDMI registration.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Generalize iIDMA support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Generalize FW-Interface-2 support.
  ...
2007-07-22 11:36:49 -07:00
Len Brown
08e31686d6 Pull thinkpad into release branch 2007-07-22 02:28:06 -04:00
Len Brown
f79e3185dd Pull misc into release branch
Conflicts:

	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2007-07-22 02:27:40 -04:00
Zhang Rui
8b8eb7d8cf ACPI: update ACPI proc I/F removal schedule
ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and
some user space tools still depend on the ACPI proc I/F.

We plan to finish all the sysfs conversion by January 2008
and remove the ACPI proc I/F in July 2008.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-22 02:09:16 -04:00
Zhang Rui
7a9b9068b8 ACPI: update feature-removal-schedule.txt, /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace is gone
The /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace has already been removed in 2.6.21.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-22 02:08:16 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
c78d5c96bb ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.15
Name it thinkpad-acpi version 0.15.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:50:13 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
3d6f99ca00 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make EC-based thermal readings non-experimental
Reading the 16 thermal sensors directly from the EC has been stable for
about one year, in all supported ThinkPad models.  Remove its
"experimental" label.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:50:05 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
edf0e0e569 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: react to Lenovo ThinkPad differences in hot key
Lenovo ThinkPads have a slightly different key map layout from IBM
ThinkPads (fn+f2 and fn+f3 are swapped).  Knowing which one we are dealing
with, we can properly set a few more hot keys up by default.

Also, export the correct vendor in the input device, as that information
might be useful to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:49:18 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
24d3b77467 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: allow use of CMOS NVRAM for brightness control
It appears that Lenovo decided to break the EC brightness control interface
in a weird way in their latest BIOSes.  Fortunately, the old CMOS NVRAM
interface works just fine in such BIOSes.

Add a module parameter that allows the user to select which strategy to use
for brightness control: EC, NVRAM, or both.  By default, do both (which is
the way thinkpad-acpi used to work until now) on IBM ThinkPads, and use
NVRAM only on Lenovo ThinkPads.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:49:03 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
741553c2d2 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to input layer
The change in the way hotkey events are handled by default, and the use of
the input layer for the hotkey events are important enough features to
warrant increasing the major field of the sysfs interface version.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:46:48 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
1a343760b5 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make the input event mode the default
Make the input layer the default way to deal with thinkpad-acpi hot keys,
but add a kernel config option to retain the old way of doing things.

This means we map a lot more keys to useful stuff by default, and also that
we enable hot key handling by default on driver load (like Windows does).

The documentation for proper use of this resource is also updated.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:45:56 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
6a38abbf2b ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver
Add input device support to the hotkey subdriver.

Hot keys that have a valid keycode mapping are reported through the input
layer if the input device is open.  Otherwise, they will be reported as
ACPI events, as they were before.

Scan codes are reported (using EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events) along with EV_KEY
KEY_UNKNOWN events.

For backwards compatibility purposes, hot keys that used to be reported
through ACPI events are not mapped to anything meaningful by default.
Userspace is supposed to remap them if it wants to use the input device for
hot key reporting.

This patch is based on a patch by Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:38:44 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
d54b7d7f80 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update CMOS commands documentation
The CMOS set of commands is often just used to keep the CMOS NVRAM in sync
with whatever the ACPI BIOS has been doing in modern ThinkPads.  In older
ThinkPads, it actually carried out real actions.  Document this.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:38:23 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
94b0871318 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to hotkey
The change in the size of the hotkey mask, the hability to report the keys
that use the higher bits, and the addition of the hotkey_radio_sw attribute
are important enough features to warrant increasing the minor field of the
sysfs interface version.

Also, document a bit better how and when the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface
version will be updated.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:38:16 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
74941a69af ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export to sysfs the state of the radio slider switch
Some ThinkPad models, notably the T60 and X60, have a slider switch to
enable and disable the radios.  The switch has the capability of
force-disabling the radios in hardware on most models, and it is supposed
to affect all radios (WLAN, WWAN, BlueTooth).

Export the switch state as a sysfs attribute, on ThinkPads where it is
available.

Thanks to Henning Schild for asking for this feature, and for tracking down
the EC register that holds the radio switch state.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Henning Schild <henning@wh9.tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:38:08 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
9b010de59c ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export hotkey maximum masks
The firmware knows how many hot keys it supports, so export this
information in a sysfs attribute.

And the driver knows which keys are always handled by the firmware in all
known ThinkPad models too, so export this information as well in a sysfs
attribute.  Unless you know which events need to be handled in a passive
way, do *not* enable hotkeys that are always handled by the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:37:59 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
ae92bd17ff ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: enable more hotkeys
Revise ACPI HKEY functionality to better interface with the firmware, and
enable up to 32 regular hotkeys, instead of just 16 of them.  Ouch.

This takes care of most keys one used to have to do CMOS NVRAM polling on,
and should drop the need for tpb, thinkpad-keys, and other such 5Hz NVRAM
polling power vampires on most modern ThinkPads ;-)

And, just to add insult to injury, this was sort of working since forever
through the procfs interface, but nobody noticed or tried an echo
0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey and told me it would generate weird
events. ARGH!

Thanks to Richard Hughes for kicking off the work that ended up with this
discovery, and to Matthew Garret for calling my attention to the fact that
newer ThinkPads were indeed generating ACPI GPEs when such hot keys were
pressed.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:37:50 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
b8b26402cb ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update information on T43 thermal sensor 0xc1
Update the documentation with some extra data on the T43 thermal sensor
@0xc1, thanks to Alexey Fisher.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21 23:37:20 -04:00
Tim Hockin
bd78432c8f x86_64: mcelog tolerant level cleanup
Background:
 The MCE handler has several paths that it can take, depending on various
 conditions of the MCE status and the value of the 'tolerant' knob.  The
 exact semantics are not well defined and the code is a bit twisty.

Description:
 This patch makes the MCE handler's behavior more clear by documenting the
 behavior for various 'tolerant' levels.  It also fixes or enhances
 several small things in the handler.  Specifically:
     * If RIPV is set it is not safe to restart, so set the 'no way out'
       flag rather than the 'kill it' flag.
     * Don't panic() on correctable MCEs.
     * If the _OVER bit is set *and* the _UC bit is set (meaning possibly
       dropped uncorrected errors), set the 'no way out' flag.
     * Use EIPV for testing whether an app can be killed (SIGBUS) rather
       than RIPV.  According to docs, EIPV indicates that the error is
       related to the IP, while RIPV simply means the IP is valid to
       restart from.
     * Don't clear the MCi_STATUS registers until after the panic() path.
       This leaves the status bits set after the panic() so clever BIOSes
       can find them (and dumb BIOSes can do nothing).

 This patch also calls nonseekable_open() in mce_open (as suggested by akpm).

Result:
 Tolerant levels behave almost identically to how they always have, but
 not it's well defined.  There's a slightly higher chance of panic()ing
 when multiple errors happen (a good thing, IMHO).  If you take an MBE and
 panic(), the error status bits are not cleared.

Alternatives:
 None.

Testing:
 I used software to inject correctable and uncorrectable errors.  With
 tolerant = 3, the system usually survives.  With tolerant = 2, the system
 usually panic()s (PCC) but not always.  With tolerant = 1, the system
 always panic()s.  When the system panic()s, the BIOS is able to detect
 that the cause of death was an MC4.  I was not able to reproduce the
 case of a non-PCC error in userspace, with EIPV, with (tolerant < 3).
 That will be rare at best.

Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 18:37:10 -07:00
Jan Beulich
d567b6a955 x86_64: remove unused variable maxcpus
.. and adjust documentation to properly reflect options that are
x86-64 specific.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 18:37:09 -07:00
Andi Kleen
2aae950b21 x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu
This implements new vDSO for x86-64.  The concept is similar
to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC.  x86-64 has had static
vsyscalls before,  but these are not flexible enough anymore.

A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into
user address space.  The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process
for security reasons.

Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime
always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed
address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write.

The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0

It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized
clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster
than the one in the old vsyscall.  clock_gettime is significantly faster
than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME.

The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall.

Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls:
- Extensible
- Randomized
- Cleaner
- Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes
overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it)

Weak points:
- glibc support still to be written

The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version.

Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 18:37:08 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
fccdb5ae7e Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt
freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use
of the new notifier API to overcome them.  Here's an update.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21 17:49:16 -07:00
James Bottomley
110dd8f19d [SCSI] libsas: fix scr_read/write users and update the libata documentation
This fixes up the usage in libsas (which are easy to miss, since they're
only in the scsi-misc tree) ... and also corrects the documentation on
the point of what these two function pointers actually return.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-07-20 15:52:08 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
efa7e8673c Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Prevent people from directly including <asm/rwsem.h>.
  [IA64] remove time interpolator
  [IA64] Convert to generic timekeeping/clocksource
  [IA64] refresh some config files for 64K pagesize
  [IA64] Delete iosapic_free_rte()
  [IA64] fallocate system call
  [IA64] Enable percpu vector domain for IA64_DIG
  [IA64] Enable percpu vector domain for IA64_GENERIC
  [IA64] Support irq migration across domain
  [IA64] Add support for vector domain
  [IA64] Add mapping table between irq and vector
  [IA64] Check if irq is sharable
  [IA64] Fix invalid irq vector assumption for iosapic
  [IA64] Use dynamic irq for iosapic interrupts
  [IA64] Use per iosapic lock for indirect iosapic register access
  [IA64] Cleanup lock order in iosapic_register_intr
  [IA64] Remove duplicated members in iosapic_rte_info
  [IA64] Remove block structure for locking in iosapic.c
2007-07-20 12:02:20 -07:00
Tony Luck
c36c282b88 Pull ia64-clocksource into release branch 2007-07-20 11:26:47 -07:00
Bob Picco
1f564ad6d4 [IA64] remove time interpolator
Remove time_interpolator code (This is generic code, but
only user was ia64.  It has been superseded by the
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME code).

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-20 11:23:02 -07:00