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H. Peter Anvin
de372ecd80 Documentation/i386/boot.txt: update and correct
In the process of rewriting the x86 setup code, I found a number of
inaccuracies and outdated recommendations in the boot protocol
documentation.  Revamp to make it more up to date.

In particular, the common use of the heap actually requires (slightly)
more than 4K of heap plus stack, which is the recommended amount in
the document; currently the code compensates by being smaller than
specified, but we can't assume that will be true forever.  Thus,
recommend that if we have a modern bzImage kernel, that the bootloader
maximizes the available space.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 20:47:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6ec129c3a2 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: (58 commits)
  [SCSI] zfcp: clear boxed flag on unit reopen.
  [SCSI] zfcp: clear adapter failed flag if an fsf request times out.
  [SCSI] zfcp: rework request ID management.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Fix deadlock between zfcp ERP and SCSI
  [SCSI] zfcp: Locking for req_no and req_seq_no
  [SCSI] zfcp: print S_ID and D_ID with 3 bytes
  [SCSI] ipr: Use PCI-E reset API for new ipr adapter
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.01.07-k7.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add MSI support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct pci_set_msi() usage semantics.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Attempt to stop firmware only if it had been previously executed.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Honor NVRAM port-down-retry-count settings.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Error-out during probe() if we're unable to complete HBA initialization.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Stop system after memory corruption
  [SCSI] mesh: cleanup variable usage in interrupt handler
  [SCSI] megaraid: replace yield() with cond_resched()
  [SCSI] megaraid: fix warnings when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [SCSI] aacraid: correct SUN products to README
  [SCSI] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers
  [SCSI] aacraid: kexec fix (reset interrupt handler)
  ...
2007-05-08 20:32:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
36f021b579 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (32 commits)
  Use menuconfig objects - hwmon
  hwmon/smsc47b397: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/smsc47b397: Convert to a platform driver
  hwmon/w83781d: Deprecate W83627HF support
  hwmon/w83781d: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/w83781d: Be less i2c_client-centric
  hwmon/w83781d: Clean up conversion macros
  hwmon/w83781d: No longer use i2c-isa
  hwmon/ams: Do not print error on systems without apple motion sensor
  hwmon/ams: Fix I2C read retry logic
  hwmon: New AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 driver
  hwmon/coretemp: Add documentation
  hwmon: New coretemp driver
  i386: Use functions from library in msr driver
  i386: Add safe variants of rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu
  hwmon/lm75: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/lm78: Use dynamic sysfs callbacks
  hwmon/lm78: Be less i2c_client-centric
  hwmon/lm78: No longer use i2c-isa
  hwmon: New max6650 driver
  ...
2007-05-08 12:07:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
df6d3916f3 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (77 commits)
  [POWERPC] Abolish powerpc_flash_init()
  [POWERPC] Early serial debug support for PPC44x
  [POWERPC] Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc
  [POWERPC] Add device tree for Ebony
  [POWERPC] Add powerpc/platforms/44x, disable platforms/4xx for now
  [POWERPC] MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend
  [POWERPC] MPIC MSI allocator
  [POWERPC] Enable MSI mappings for MPIC
  [POWERPC] Tell Phyp we support MSI
  [POWERPC] RTAS MSI implementation
  [POWERPC] PowerPC MSI infrastructure
  [POWERPC] Rip out the existing powerpc msi stubs
  [POWERPC] Remove use of 4level-fixup.h for ppc32
  [POWERPC] Add powerpc PCI-E reset API implementation
  [POWERPC] Holly bootwrapper
  [POWERPC] Holly DTS
  [POWERPC] Holly defconfig
  [POWERPC] Add support for 750CL Holly board
  [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PCI setup
  [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PHY types
  ...

Fixed conflict in include/asm-powerpc/kdebug.h manually

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:50:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
18062a91d2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6:
  JFS: Fix race waking up jfsIO kernel thread
  JFS: use __set_current_state()
  Copy i_flags to jfs inode flags on write
  JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt
2007-05-08 11:32:30 -07:00
Ondrej Zajicek
249bdbbf0d s3fb: driver fixes
This fixes broken fbcon on Virge VX in 24 bpp mode, and contains several
other small updates.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:32 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas
55ff9780e7 vt: add documentation for new boot/sysfs options
Add description to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt on new options
default_blue, default_grn, default_red, and default_utf8.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:29 -07:00
Jaya Kumar
60b59beafb fbdev: mm: Deferred IO support
This implements deferred IO support in fbdev.  Deferred IO is a way to delay
and repurpose IO.  This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite and
page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO.  This
functionality is used by hecubafb.

[adaplas]
This is useful for graphics hardware with no directly addressable/mappable
framebuffer. Implementing this will allow the "framebuffer" to be accesible
from user space via mmap().

Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
9e40210272 Char: mxser, schedule for removal
mxser, schedule for removal

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:24 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
7e92b4fc34 x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices
Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them
if we have PNP.

This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by
the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g.,

    serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be
claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA
drivers and administration.

In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init
script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART
stuff back in.  On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel"
option does this.

To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or
ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with
the "legacy_serial.force" option.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:23 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
d0d4f69bb6 smsc-ircc2: add PNP support
Claim devices using PNP, unless the user explicitly specified device
addresses.  This can be disabled with the "smsc-ircc2.nopnp" option.

This removes the need for probing legacy addresses and helps untangle IR
devices from serial8250 devices.

Sometimes the SMC device is at a legacy COM port address but does not use the
legacy COM IRQ.  In this case, claiming the device using PNP rather than 8250
legacy probe means we can automatically use the correct IRQ rather than
forcing the user to use "setserial" to set the IRQ manually.

If the PNP claim doesn't work, make sure you don't have a setserial init
script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, configured to poke in legacy COM port
resources for the IRDA device.  That causes the serial driver to claim
resources needed by this driver.

Based on this patch by Ville Syrjälä:
    http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/ir260_smsc_pnp.diff

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:23 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
bf8f6e5b3e Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs
This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off

o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
  not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
  not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
  registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
  enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
  also update the doc to make it current.

We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
David Brownell
f8245c2688 rtc: remove "RTC_ALM_SET mode" bugs
This fixes a common glitch in how RTC drivers handle two "set alarm" modes,
by getting rid of the surprising/hidden one that was rarely implemented
correctly (and which could expose nonportable hardware-specific behavior).

The glitch comes from the /dev/rtcX logic implementing the legacy
RTC_ALM_SET (limited to 24 hours, needing RTC_AIE_ON) ioctl on top of the
RTC driver call providing access to the newer RTC_WKALM_SET (without those
limitations) by initializing the day/month/year fields to be invalid ...
that second mode.

Now, since few RTC drivers check those fields, and most hardware misbehaves
when faced with invalid date fields, many RTC drivers will set bogus alarm
times on those RTC_ALM_SET code paths.  (Several in-tree drivers have that
issue, and I also noticed it with code reviews on several new RTC drivers.)

This patch ensures that RTC drivers never see such invalid alarm fields, by
moving some logic out of rtc-omap into the RTC_ALM_SET code and adding an
explicit check (which will prevent the issue on other code paths).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:19 -07:00
David Brownell
33e34dc6ee SPI kerneldoc
Various documentation updates for the SPI infrastructure, to clarify things
that may not have been clear, to cope with lack of editing, and fix
omissions.

Also, plug SPI into the kernel-api DocBook template, and fix all the
resulting glitches in document generation.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:16 -07:00
Andrea Paterniani
814a8d50eb /dev/spidevB.C interface
Add a filesystem API for <linux/spi/spi.h> stack.  The initial version of
this interface is purely synchronous.

dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net:

 Cleaned up, bugfixed; much simplified; added preliminary documentation.

 Works with mdev given CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; and presumably udev.

 Updated SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to full spi_message semantics, supporting
 groups of one or more transfers (each of which may be full duplex if
 desired).

 This is marked as EXPERIMENTAL with an explicit disclaimer that the API
 (notably the ioctls) is subject to change.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:15 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
58235413b2 docbook: librs typo fixes
librs docbook typo fixes.

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>
2007-05-08 11:15:15 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
cef2cf0727 Misc: add sensable phantom driver
Add sensable phantom driver

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:14 -07:00
Zach Carter
a3e0975684 laptop-mode URL update
Signed-off-by: Zach Carter <linux@zachcarter.com>
Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:14 -07:00
Michal Piotrowski
8890ccf8fe doc: fix oops-tracing duplicate
Remove duplicate 'U' entry -- fix mis-merge.

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:14 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
53ab97a1c1 Fix chapter reference in CodingStyle
commit 226a6b84aa renumbered Chapter 11 in
Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference
to that chapter further down in the file.  This patch corrects the chapter
reference.

Signed-off-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
28ec039c21 fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented.  Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly.

This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default.  (instead, add "usefree"
for forcing to use it)

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
35bab756b4 The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
e659ba4a0d CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:12 -07:00
Scott Wiersdorf
7f76c40375 getdelays.c: fix overrun
A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w.

Cc: <matt@bluehost.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:12 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
f16825bbeb Taskstats: fix getdelays usage information
Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:11 -07:00
Stephen M. Cameron
6c080f1a93 Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives
Document how to detect drive failures for cciss

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
eb81d93046 kernel-doc: generate main index page when building 'htmldocs'
A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like
index.html page after building 'htmldocs'

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Acked-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>
2007-05-08 11:15:10 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
0e8638e2ac Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2
The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:

> This is going to break a lot of external stuff.  We should have found
> a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
> warning) to warn people of impending doom.  But I can't immediately
> find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
> suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months.  It's
> going to get ugly out there.  We shall see...

Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
so a warning is emitted on compile time.

Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
274ee1cd91 schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 4th round
Schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
c23fbb6bcb VFS: delay the dentry name generation on sockets and pipes
1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'.  This method
   called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
   special filesystems.  It is called without locks.

   Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
   pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
   use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
   creation.  This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
   /proc/pid/fd/...

A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
*nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:03 -07:00
Kees Cook
5096add84b proc: maps protection
The /proc/pid/ "maps", "smaps", and "numa_maps" files contain sensitive
information about the memory location and usage of processes.  Issues:

- maps should not be world-readable, especially if programs expect any
  kind of ASLR protection from local attackers.
- maps cannot just be 0400 because "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2" makes glibc
  check the maps when %n is in a *printf call, and a setuid(getuid())
  process wouldn't be able to read its own maps file.  (For reference
  see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/22/150)
- a system-wide toggle is needed to allow prior behavior in the case of
  non-root applications that depend on access to the maps contents.

This change implements a check using "ptrace_may_attach" before allowing
access to read the maps contents.  To control this protection, the new knob
/proc/sys/kernel/maps_protect has been added, with corresponding updates to
the procfs documentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: New sysctl numbers are old hat]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:02 -07:00
Alan
6309ed7cb2 tty: Clarify documentation of ->write()
The tty driver write method is different to the usual fops device write
methods as the buffer is already in kernel space. Clarify the docs since
someone writing a driver made that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:59 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
5b79520212 Documentation: Ask driver writers to provide PM support
Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the
basic PM support be provided by new device drivers.

Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions
on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and
resume support in device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:59 -07:00
Rudolf Marek
d58ee056cc hwmon/coretemp: Add documentation
Documentation for the coretemp driver.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:22:02 +02:00
Hans-Juergen Koch
d20620de0c hwmon: New max6650 driver
This driver supports the Maxim MAX6650 and MAX6651 fan speed
monitoring and control chips.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:22:00 +02:00
Jean Delvare
2dbc514a2e hwmon: Document the new fan1_target interface file
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:22:00 +02:00
Jean Delvare
8eccbb6fb9 hwmon/smsc47m1: Add support for the LPC47M292
The new SMSC LPC47M292 Super-I/O chip is a bit different from the
previous ones, it supports a 3rd fan, but unfortunately the pin
configuration registers are different.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-05-08 17:21:59 +02:00
Jean Delvare
00cb473905 hwmon/smsc47m192: Document the LPC47M292 as supported
The new SMSC LPC47M292 Super-I/O chip includes a hardware monitoring
block which is compatible with those of the LPC47M192.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Hartmut Rick <linux@rick.claranet.de>
2007-05-08 17:21:59 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
02bbc0f09c Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2007-05-08 13:37:51 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
a989705c4c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] update memory attribute aliasing documentation & test cases
  [IA64] fail mmaps that span areas with incompatible attributes
  [IA64] allow WB /sys/.../legacy_mem mmaps
  [IA64] make ioremap avoid unsupported attributes
  [IA64] rename ioremap variables to match i386
  [IA64] relax per-cpu TLB requirement to DTC
  [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
  [IA64] Fix example error injection program
  [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: pal_mc_error_inject() interface
  [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Makefile changes
  [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Driver sysfs interface
  [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Doc and sample application
  [IA64] Itanium MC Error Injection Tool: Kernel configuration
2007-05-07 12:34:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5b6b549822 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (38 commits)
  sh: R7785RP board updates.
  sh: Update r7780rp defconfig.
  sh: Add die chain notifiers.
  sh: Fix APM emulation on hp6xx.
  sh: Wire up more IRQs for SH7709.
  sh: Solution Engine 7722 board support.
  sh: Fix r7780rp build.
  sh: kdump support.
  sh: Move clock reporting to its own proc entry.
  sh: Solution Engine SH7705 board and CPU updates.
  serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcount for serial console.
  serial: sh-sci: Fix module clock refcounting.
  sh: SH7722 clock framework support.
  sh: hp6xx pata_platform support.
  sh: Obey CONFIG_HZ for HZ definition.
  sh: Fix fstatat64() syscall.
  sh: se7780 PCI support.
  sh: SH7780 Solution Engine board support.
  sh: Add a dummy SH-4 PCIC fixup.
  sh: Tidy up L-BOX area5 addresses.
  ...
2007-05-07 12:17:40 -07:00
Johannes Berg
f0ced9b229 power management: change /sys/power/disk display
Change /sys/power/disk to display all valid modes as well as the currently
selected one in a fashion known from the LED subsystem.

This changes userspace API, but it is apparently not used much (we asked
some userspace developers)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:59 -07:00
Bryan Wu
1394f03221 blackfin architecture
This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and
currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561
(Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those
avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP,
BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix!  Tinyboards.

The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices
Inc.  (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in
December of 2000.  Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin
processor family of devices.  The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean,
orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set.  It combines a dual-MAC
(Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and
single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single
instruction-set architecture.

The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf

The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and
there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete
documentation, including "getting started" guides available at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and
patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for
bfin-linux-uclibc

This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution,
uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can
be found at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files]
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:58 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
2b744c01a5 mm: fix handling of panic_on_oom when cpusets are in use
The current panic_on_oom may not work if there is a process using
cpusets/mempolicy, because other nodes' memory may remain.  But some people
want failover by panic ASAP even if they are used.  This patch makes new
setting for its request.

This is tested on my ia64 box which has 3 nodes.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c09d875172 slub: add slabinfo tool
Add the tool which gets reports about slabs to the VM documentation directory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
352434211d slub: user documentation
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
David Rientjes
b813e931b4 smaps: add clear_refs file to clear reference
Adds /proc/pid/clear_refs.  When any non-zero number is written to this file,
pte_mkold() and ClearPageReferenced() is called for each pte and its
corresponding page, respectively, in that task's VMAs.  This file is only
writable by the user who owns the task.

It is now possible to measure _approximately_ how much memory a task is using
by clearing the reference bits with

	echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs

and checking the reference count for each VMA from the /proc/pid/smaps output
at a measured time interval.  For example, to observe the approximate change
in memory footprint for a task, write a script that clears the references
(echo 1 > /proc/pid/clear_refs), sleeps, and then greps for Pgs_Referenced and
extracts the size in kB.  Add the sizes for each VMA together for the total
referenced footprint.  Moments later, repeat the process and observe the
difference.

For example, using an efficient Mozilla:

	accumulated time		referenced memory
	----------------		-----------------
		 0 s				 408 kB
		 1 s				 408 kB
		 2 s				 556 kB
		 3 s				1028 kB
		 4 s				 872 kB
		 5 s				1956 kB
		 6 s				 416 kB
		 7 s				1560 kB
		 8 s				2336 kB
		 9 s				1044 kB
		10 s				 416 kB

This is a valuable tool to get an approximate measurement of the memory
footprint for a task.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[mpm@selenic.com: rename for_each_pmd]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
6179b5562d add new_id to PCMCIA drivers
PCI drivers have the new_id file in sysfs which allows new IDs to be added
at runtime.  The advantage is to avoid re-compilation of a driver that
works for a new device, but it's ID table doesn't contain the new device.
This mechanism is only meant for testing, after the driver has been tested
successfully, the ID should be added in source code so that new revisions
of the kernel automatically detect the device.

The implementation follows the PCI implementation. The interface is documented
in Documentation/pcmcia/driver.txt. Computations should be done in userspace,
so the sysfs string contains the raw structure members for matching.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
dmitry pervushin
1929cb340b sh: SH7722 clock framework support.
This adds support for the SH7722 (MobileR) to the clock framework.

Signed-off-by: dmitry pervushin <dimka@nomadgs.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-05-07 02:11:56 +00:00
Paul Mundt
d29c91c70b doc: Update sysrq doc for sh kgdb trigger.
sh uses the same sysrq trigger as ppc, update the documentation to
reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-05-07 02:10:53 +00:00