My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.
Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.
Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/kernel-doc can (incorrectly) delete struct members that are
surrounded by /* ... */ <struct members> /* ... */ if there is a /*
private: */ comment in there somewhere also.
Fix that by making the "/* private:" only allow whitespace between /* and
"private:", not anything/everything in the world.
This fixes some erroneous kernel-doc warnings that popped up while
processing include/linux/usb/composite.h.
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>
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page
locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the
lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have
full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM.
Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we
call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with
it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock.
The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to
associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will
perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must
return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according
to existing page_mkwrite convention).
In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The
filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be
attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the
filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no
longer dirty.
It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in
->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The
filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example.
And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because
page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the
page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail.
This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations
(page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty)
closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being
initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong
synchronisation against the VM here.
- Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem.
- Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913).
- I need it for fsblock.
- I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs).
- I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation
under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page
at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot
be fixed properly without this patch).
- Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their
page_mkwrite functions themselves.
[ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should
eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a
filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping]
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchs adds documentation for the multi-touch protocol to
Documentation/input/.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: grammar fixes]
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
This patch adds documentation for the bcm5974 to Documentation/input/.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Adds documentation for the slub ABI.
This is placed in the `testing' directory since the meanings of these
files are still subject to change as slub is developed.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This reverts commit 8032b526d1.
Hey, it was only meant to be a single release. Now they can all die as
far as I'm concerned.
[ Just kidding. They're cute and cuddly.
Except when they have horrible nasty facial diseases. Oh, and I guess
they're not actually that cuddly even when disease-free. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL.
Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
isdn: document Kernel CAPI driver interface
Create a file Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI describing the
interface between the kernel CAPI subsystem and ISDN device drivers,
analogous to the existing Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE for the old
isdn4linux subsystem. Also add kerneldoc comments to the exported
functions in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c.
Impact: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the
old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add a few missing files.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From source code of get_usage_char(), the previous note is not correct,
so fix it.
static char get_usage_char(struct lock_class *class, enum lock_usage_bit bit)
{
char c = '.';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))/*LOCK_ENABLED_##STATE*/
c = '+';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit)) {/*LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE*/
c = '-';
if (class->usage_mask & lock_flag(bit + 2))
c = '?';
}
return c;
}
note:
1) The 'bit' parameter always is passed as LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE
or LOCK_USED_IN_##STATE_READ , from get_usage_chars().
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240585806-5744-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adjust the CacheFiles documentation to use the correct names of the credential
pointers in task_struct.
The documentation was using names from the old versions of the credentials
patches.
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add drivers/pci/*.c source files to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
and update those pci/*.c source files that need kernel-doc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This is a doc-only patch which I hope will reduce the number of
spi_master controller driver patches starting out with a common
implementation bug.
(As in: almost every spi_master driver I see starts out with its
version of this bug. Sigh.)
It just re-emphasizes that the setup() method may be called for one
device while a transfer is active on another ... which means that most
driver implementations shouldn't touch any registers.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt incorrectly states that the kernel is
locked during the call to statfs (Documentation/filesystems/Locking
correctly says it is not). This patch removes the offending sentence.
remove reference to BKL being held in statfs
Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Robert noted that we don't actually document that lguest is 32-bit only,
nor that PAE must be off (CONFIG_PAE is now prompted for if HIGHMEM is
set to "off).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lguest@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Following patch introduce support for setting options
to gcc that has effect for current directory and all
subdirectories.
The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that
decide to cover all files with -Werror.
Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their
Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so
as only the top-level directories needs to be covered.
Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such
as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single
line to net/Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.
Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.
[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number.
Features added since 0.22:
* Restrict unsafe LEDs
* New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads
* Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug)
* Warn when deprecated functions are used
Other changes:
* Better debug messages in some subdrivers
* Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver
* Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
V3 of the early platform driver implementation.
Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses,
interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.
For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early
timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This
because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the
platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk
support. Early in this case means before initcalls.
These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working
quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
driver. A single way would be better.
The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the
probe is decided by the architecture code.
See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add binding for mtd nodes with multiple reg tuples. Multiple reg tuples
are used when the flash region covers multiple devices of the same type,
but not necessarily the same size.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
It's easier to find bindings descriptions in separate files. So factor
out the MTD physmap bindings into a separate file to not clutter
booting-without-of.txt more.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
We do per-device plugging, get rid of any references to tq_disk as that
has been dead since 2.6.5 or so.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
X86 is same as X86-32+X86-64 so replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239698023.3033.37.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the default mountpoint of debugfs in the pktcdvd ABI.
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The description about various statistics from memory.stat is not accurate
and confusing at times.
Correct this along with a few other minor cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-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>
I'm sure everyone knows this, but I didn't, so I googled it, and found a
nice explanation from Linus. Might be worth sticking in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Do a bit of reformatting on the Unevictable-LRU documentation.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After the introduction of resource counters hierarchies
(28dbc4b6a0) the prototypes of
res_counter_init() and res_counter_charge() have been changed.
Keep the documentation consistent with the actual function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: 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>
Support for I2C/DDC was recently added to the tdfxfb driver, which
means that the i2c-voodoo3 driver can be deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Fix a zero address hole bug in the bonding arp_ip_target list
that was causing the bond to ignore ARP replies (bugz 13006).
Instead of just setting the array entry to zero, we now
copy any additional entries down one slot, putting the
zero entry at the end. With this change we can now have
all the loops that walk the array stop when they hit a zero
since there will be no addresses after it.
Changes are based in part on code fragment provided in kernel:
bugzilla 13006:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13006
by Steve Howard <steve@astutenetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a 'make cleandocs' target to clean up all generated
DocBook files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
xtensa and arm have asked for a possibility to export headers
and locate them in a specific directory when exported.
Introduce destiantion-y to support this.
This patch in additiona adds some limited
documentation for the variables used for exported headers.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Move kmemtrace.txt, tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to
the new trace/ directory.
I didnt find any references to those documents in both source
files and documents, so no extra work needs to be done.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49DD6E2B.6090200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Hugh Dickins