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Andi Kleen
d20894a237 Remove a.out interpreter support in ELF loader
Following the deprecation schedule the a.out ELF interpreter support
is removed now with this patch. a.out ELF interpreters were an transition
feature for moving a.out systems to ELF, but they're unlikely to be still
needed. Pure a.out systems will still work of course. This allows to
simplify the hairy ELF loader.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f84e3f521e mount options: add documentation
This series addresses the problem of showing mount options in
/proc/mounts.

Several filesystems which use mount options, have not implemented a
.show_options superblock operation.  Several others have implemented
this callback, but have not kept it fully up to date with the parsed
options.

Q: Why do we need correct option showing in /proc/mounts?
A: We want /proc/mounts to fully replace /etc/mtab.  The reasons for
   this are:
    - unprivileged mounters won't be able to update /etc/mtab
    - /etc/mtab doesn't work with private mount namespaces
    - /etc/mtab can become out-of-sync with reality

Q: Can't this be done, so that filesystems need not bother with
   implementing a .show_mounts callback, and keeping it up to date?
A: Only in some cases.  Certain filesystems allow modification of a
   subset of options in their remount_fs method.  It is not possible
   to take this into account without knowing exactly how the
   filesystem handles options.

For the simple case (no remount or remount resets all options) the
patchset introduces two helpers:

  generic_show_options()
  save_mount_options()

These can also be used to emulate the old /etc/mtab behavior, until
proper support is added.  Even if this is not 100% correct, it's still
better than showing no options at all.

The following patches fix up most in-tree filesystems, some have been
compile tested only, some have been reviewed and acked by the
maintainer.

Table displaying status of all in-kernel filesystems:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
legend:

  none - fs has options, but doesn't define ->show_options()
  some - fs defines ->show_options(), but some only options are shown
  good - fs shows all options
  noopt - fs does not have options
  patch - a patch will be posted
  merged - a patch has been merged by subsystem maintainer

9p          good
adfs        patch
affs        patch
afs         patch
autofs      patch
autofs4     patch
befs        patch
bfs         noopt
cifs        some
coda        noopt
configfs    noopt
cramfs      noopt
debugfs     noopt
devpts      patch
ecryptfs    good
efs         noopt
ext2        patch
ext3        good
ext4        merged
fat         patch
freevxfs    noopt
fuse        patch
fusectl	    noopt
gfs2        good
gfs2meta    noopt
hfs         good
hfsplus     good
hostfs      patch
hpfs        patch
hppfs       noopt
hugetlbfs   patch
isofs       patch
jffs2       noopt
jfs         merged
minix       noopt
msdos       ->fat
ncpfs       patch
nfs         some
nfsd        noopt
ntfs        good
ocfs2       good
ocfs2/dlmfs noopt
openpromfs  noopt
proc        noopt
qnx4        noopt
ramfs       noopt
reiserfs    patch
romfs       noopt
smbfs       good
sysfs       noopt
sysv        noopt
udf         patch
ufs         good
vfat        ->fat
xfs         good

mm/shmem.c                                    patch
drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c                 noopt
drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_fs.c        noopt
drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c                noopt
drivers/usb/core (usbfs)                      merged
drivers/usb/gadget (gadgetfs)                 noopt
drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c                    patch
kernel/cpuset.c                               noopt
fs/binfmt_misc.c                              noopt
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c                         noopt
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs             patch
arch/s390/hypfs                               good
ipc/mqueue.c                                  noopt
security (securityfs)                         noopt
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c                  noopt
kernel/cgroup.c                               good
security/smack/smackfs.c                      noopt

in -mm:

reiser4     some
unionfs     good
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This patch:

Document the rules for handling mount options in the .show_options
super operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
Jan Kara
9b7880e7bb isofs: implement dmode option
Implement dmode option for iso9660 filesystem to allow setting of access
rights for directories on the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
a36219ac93 The scheduled 'time' option removal
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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>
2008-02-08 09:22:36 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
262bf54144 aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device
is created.  If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote
device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling
the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices.

Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE
devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until
the I/O attempt times out.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
468fc53050 aoe: clean up udev configuration example
This patch adds a known default location for the udev configuration file and
uses the more recent "==" syntax for SUBSYSTEM and KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
David Howells
b920de1b77 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel
Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the
kernel.

This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter
board, and the ASB2305.  The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which
is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings]
Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d7511ec811 Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: (59 commits)
  hwmon: (lm80) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (lm80) De-macro the sysfs callbacks
  hwmon: (lm80) Various cleanups
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Refactor beep enable handling
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Add individual alarm and beep files
  hwmon: (w83627hf) Enable VBAT monitoring
  hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pins
  hwmon: (asb100) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (asb100) De-macro the sysfs callbacks
  hwmon: (asb100) Various cleanups
  hwmon: VRM is not written to registers
  hwmon: (dme1737) fix Super-IO device ID override
  hwmon: (dme1737) fix divide-by-0
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Add AUX4 fan input for Abit IP35 Pro
  hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828
  hwmon: (adm9240) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (lm77) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: Discard useless I2C driver IDs
  hwmon: (lm85) Make the pwmN_enable files writable
  hwmon: (lm85) Return standard values in pwmN_enable
  ...
2008-02-07 19:15:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c00f08d705 Merge branch 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm
* 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
  SLUB: fix checkpatch warnings
  Use non atomic unlock
  SLUB: Support for performance statistics
  SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local
  SLUB: Use unique end pointer for each slab page.
  SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()
2008-02-07 18:22:29 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8ff12cfc00 SLUB: Support for performance statistics
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
footprint of SLUB.

There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
statistics and its off by default.

The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:

-D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
	mode to activity mode.

-A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.

-r	Report option will report detailed statistics on

Example (tbench load):

slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs

Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
:0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
:0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
:0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
:0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
:0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
:0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
:0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
:0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
:0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
:0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15

So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases

slabinfo -a | grep 000192
:0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili

Likely skbuff_head_cache.


Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through

slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned


.... Usual output ...

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
Add partial                25      325   0   0
Remove partial             86      264   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
Total                111954404 111954404

Flushes       49 Refill        0
Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)

Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.


skbuff_head_cache:

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
Total                 5301739  5299468

Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)


Descriptions of the output:

Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
		slab

Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.

Slowpath:	Other allocations

Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
		processing

Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)

Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
		the last object of a slab.

RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
		as the cpuslab of another processor.

Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)

Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
		remotely freed objects for the same slab.

Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
		put onto the partial list.

In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
may potentially cause list lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-07 17:47:41 -08:00
Jean Delvare
cbe311f2a4 hwmon: (w83627ehf) The W83627DHG has 8 VID pins
While the W83627EHF/EHG has only 6 VID pins, the W83627DHG has 8 VID
pins, to support VRD 11.0. Add support for this.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:45 -05:00
Steve Hardy
5812f9283e hwmon: Add support for Texas Instruments/Burr-Brown ADS7828
Signed-off-by: Steve Hardy <steve@linuxrealtime.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:44 -05:00
Jean Delvare
05663368d2 hwmon: (w83781d) Drop W83627HF support
The W83627HF hardware monitoring features are supported by the
w83627hf driver for several years now. Support by the w83781d has
been advertised as deprecated 6 months ago, it's about time to see
it go.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:43 -05:00
Jean Delvare
f1d8e33263 hwmon: (it87) Discard a dead e-mail address
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:42 -05:00
Jean Delvare
ec1d86c457 hwmon: Update the lm-sensors website address
It's about time to reflect the move of the lm-sensors project to
lm-sensors.org.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:42 -05:00
Jean Delvare
c7fa373796 hwmon: (lm87) Add support for the Analog Devices ADM1024
It happens that the Analog Devices ADM1024 is fully compatible with
the National Semiconductor LM87, so support for the former can easily
be added to the lm87 driver.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Kevin Lo
85f03bccd6 hwmon: Add support for Winbond W83L786NG/NR
Signed-off-by: Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Jean Delvare
6722feada7 hwmon: (lm78/w83781d) Probe fewer I2C addresses
We've never seen any device supported by the lm78 or w83781d driver at
addresses 0x20-0x27, so let's stop probing these addresses. Extra probes cost
time, and have potential for confusing or misdetecting other I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-02-07 20:39:40 -05:00
Nick Cheng
76d78300a6 [SCSI] arcmsr: updates (1.20.00.15)
- add arcmsr_enable_eoi_mode()and readl(reg->iop2drv_doorbell_reg) in
  arcmsr_handle_hbb_isr() on adapter Type B in case of the doorbell
  interrupt clearance is cached

- add conditional declaration for arcmsr_pci_error_detected() and
  arcmsr_pci_slot_reset

- check if the sg list member number exceeds arcmsr default limit in
  arcmsr_build_ccb()

- change the returned value type of arcmsr_build_ccb()from "void" to
  "int" returns FAILED in arcmsr_queue_command()

- modify arcmsr_drain_donequeue() to ignore unknown command and let
  kernel process command timeout.  This could handle IO request violating
  maximum segments, i.e.  Linux XFS over DM-CRYPT.  Thanks to Milan Broz's
  comments <mbroz@redhat.com>

- fix the release of dma memory for type B in arcmsr_free_ccb_pool()

- fix the arcmsr_polling_hbb_ccbdone()

Signed-off-by: Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-02-07 18:02:44 -06:00
James Bottomley
99cb813794 [SCSI] update my email address
This updates steeleye -> hansenpartnership in the documentation since
some email has been going astray because of this.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-02-07 18:02:42 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
6e5565f949 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (34 commits)
  Input: i8042 - non-x86 build fix
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - also enable on PXA3xx
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - add debounce_interval to the keypad platform data
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - use device resources for I/O memory mapping and IRQ
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - enable rotary encoders and direct keys
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - introduce pxa27x_keypad_config()
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - introduce driver structure and use KEY() to define matrix keys
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove pin configuration from the driver
  Input: pxa27x_keypad - rename the driver (was pxa27x_keyboard)
  Input: constify function pointer tables (seq_operations)
  Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2010 to nomux list
  Input: i8042 - enable DMI quirks on x86-64
  Input: i8042 - add Dritek quirk for Acer Aspire 9110
  Input: add input event to APM event bridge
  Input: mousedev - use BIT_MASK instead of BIT
  Input: remove duplicate includes
  Input: remove cdev from input_dev structure
  Input: remove duplicated headers in drivers/char/keyboard.c
  Input: i8042 - add Dritek keyboard extension quirk
  Input: add Tosa keyboard driver
  ...
2008-02-07 12:57:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f0f1b3364a Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (112 commits)
  ACPI: fix build warning
  Revert "cpuidle: build fix for non-x86"
  ACPI: update intrd DSDT override console messages
  ACPI: update DSDT override documentation
  ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
  ACPI: its a directory not a folder....
  ACPI: misc cleanups
  ACPI: add missing prink prefix strings
  ACPI: cleanup acpi.h
  ACPICA: fix CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE build
  ACPI: video: Ignore ACPI video devices that aren't present in hardware
  ACPI: video: reset brightness on resume
  ACPI: video: call ACPI notifier chain for ACPI video notifications
  ACPI: create notifier chain to get hotkey events to graphics driver
  ACPI: video: delete unused display switch on hotkey event code
  ACPI: video: create "brightness_switch_enabled" modparam
  cpuidle: Add a poll_idle method
  ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting
  ACPI: enable MWAIT for C1 idle
  ACPI: idle: Fix acpi_safe_halt usages and interrupt enabling/disabling
  ...
2008-02-07 09:45:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3d50337f62 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
  leds: Add HP Jornada 6xx driver
  leds: Remove the now uneeded ixp4xx driver
  leds: Add power LED to the wrap driver
  leds: Fix led-gpio active_low default brightness
  leds: hw acceleration for Clevo mail LED driver
  leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing
  leds: Standardise LED naming scheme
  leds: Add clevo notebook LED driver
2008-02-07 09:45:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3796958130 Merge branch 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (69 commits)
  [POWERPC] Add SPE registers to core dumps
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for compat PTRACE_*REGS* calls
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_sys_ptrace
  [POWERPC] Use generic compat_ptrace_request
  [POWERPC] Use generic ptrace peekdata/pokedata
  [POWERPC] Use regset code for PTRACE_*REGS* requests
  [POWERPC] Switch to generic compat_binfmt_elf code
  [POWERPC] Switch to using user_regset-based core dumps
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset compat support
  [POWERPC] Add user_regset_view definitions
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for GPRs
  [POWERPC] ptrace accessors for special regs MSR and TRAP
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for SPE regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for altivec regs
  [POWERPC] Use user_regset accessors for FP regs
  [POWERPC] mpc52xx: fix compile error introduce when rebasing patch
  [POWERPC] 4xx: PCIe indirect DCR spinlock fix.
  [POWERPC] Add missing native dcr dcr_ind_lock spinlock
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix offset value on Warp board
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Add 440EPx Sequoia ehci dts entry
  ...
2008-02-07 09:02:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
1c45607ad3 Char: mxser, remove it
(Old) mxser is obsoleted by mxser_new and scheduled for removal on Dec 2007.
Remove it by renaming mxser_new to mxser.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:34 -08:00
David Howells
12debc4248 iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses
as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce
proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an
inode bad).

Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by
number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.

iget_locked() should be used instead.  A new function is added in an earlier
patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it
and release it should the get routine fail.  Mark iget() and read_inode() as
being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.

Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function
becomes an internal iget function, for example the following:

	void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
	{
		...
	}

would be changed into something like:

	struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)
	{
		struct inode *inode;
		int ret;

		inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
		if (!inode)
			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
		if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
			return inode;

		...
		unlock_new_inode(inode);
		return inode;
	error:
		iget_failed(inode);
		return ERR_PTR(ret);
	}

and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:

	ret = -EINVAL;
	inode = iget(sb, ino);
	if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))
		goto error;

becomes:

	inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);
	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
		goto error;
	}

Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called.  The error returned by
thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
David Howells
b46980feed iget: introduce a function to register iget failure
Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path.  This
includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and
releasing it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:26 -08:00
Paul Jackson
8f5aa26c75 cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix
Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 "Fix cpusets
update_cpumask" changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed
mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:23 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
dfc05c259e update Documentation/controller/memory.txt
Documentation updates for memory controller.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:22 -08:00
David Rientjes
fef1bdd68c oom: add sysctl to enable task memory dump
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a
dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an
OOM-killing.  Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu,
oom_adj score, and name.

This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which
rogue task caused it.

It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several
thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping
data they may not desire.

If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist
shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same
cgroup.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
Balbir Singh
0eea103017 Memory controller improve user interface
Change the interface to use bytes instead of pages.  Page sizes can vary
across platforms and configurations.  A new strategy routine has been added
to the resource counters infrastructure to format the data as desired.

Suggested by David Rientjes, Andrew Morton and Herbert Poetzl

Tested on a UML setup with the config for memory control enabled.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: possible race fix in res_counter]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
Balbir Singh
1b6df3aa45 Memory controller: add document
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
Paul Menage
8dc4f3e17d cgroups: move cgroups destroy() callbacks to cgroup_diput()
Move the calls to the cgroup subsystem destroy() methods from
cgroup_rmdir() to cgroup_diput().  This allows control file reads and
writes to access their subsystem state without having to be concerned with
locking against cgroup destruction - the control file dentry will keep the
cgroup and its subsystem state objects alive until the file is closed.

The documentation is updated to reflect the changed semantics of destroy();
additionally the locking comments for destroy() and some other methods were
clarified and decrustified.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
8f1466ff0a email-clients.txt: sylpheed is OK at IMAP
This comment is not helpful (no reason given) and is incorrect.
Just stick to facts that are useful regarding working on Linux.

(akpm: I've used sylpheed+imap for years)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
9b8eae7248 Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory
The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
d3cf91d0e2 Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/
This documentation is also vfs-related.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
e9b1a4d160 Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4a6b88ca3d move edac.txt two levels up
There's no reason for edac.txt for being at this unusual place.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Rob Landley
41eaa2dcb9 Add chapter IDs to z8530book.tmpl
Add chapter IDs to z8530book.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Rob Landley
dde4feb978 Add table IDs to videobook.tmpl
Add table IDs to videobook.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Rob Landley
3018d151b6 Add section IDs to rapidio.tmpl
Add section IDs to rapidio.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Rob Landley
9de476bfd5 Add missing IDs to procfs-guide.tmpl
Add missing IDs to procfs-guide.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Rob Landley
70d6d9db78 Add section IDs to mtdnand.tmpl
Add section IDs to mtdnand.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:16 -08:00
Rob Landley
90ad38b757 Add missing section ID to lsm.tmpl
Add missing section ID to lsm.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:16 -08:00
Rob Landley
aa9128f303 Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl
Add missing section IDs to genericirq.tmpl

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.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>
2008-02-07 08:42:16 -08:00
Márton Németh
4c79141d28 leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing
Extends the leds subsystem with a blink_set() callback function which can
be optionally implemented by a LED driver. If implemented, the driver can use
the hardware acceleration for blinking a LED.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2008-02-07 09:49:38 +00:00
Richard Purdie
6c152beefb leds: Standardise LED naming scheme
As discussed on LKML some notion of 'function' is needed in
LED naming. This patch adds this to the documentation and
standardises existing LED drivers.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2008-02-07 09:47:00 +00:00
Len Brown
81e242d0ef Merge branches 'release' and 'dsdt-override' into release 2008-02-07 04:01:53 -05:00
Len Brown
d89e9d6b49 ACPI: update DSDT override documentation
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 04:00:38 -05:00
Éric Piel
9cbc796028 ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 04:00:24 -05:00