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2008-10-10ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode tableTheodore Ts'o
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as reading a 4k block. So request readahead for adjacent inode table blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories (especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case. With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is reduced by 21%. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunablesTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@sun.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
2008-10-03[SCSI] fc_transport: Add an API to allow an LLD to create vportsAndrew Vasquez
There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by the transport. This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention. Additional comments/updates: Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's done for fc_vport_create Re: fc_vport_create I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather than fixing it at zero. Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless. Added-by and Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-03Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-10-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c net/core/dev.c
2008-09-30Phonet: improve documentationRémi Denis-Courmont
Fix grammar errors spotted by Randy Dunlap, and adds some more details. Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-29V4L/DVB (8909): gspca: PAC 7302 webcam 093a:262a added.Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-09-27cdrom: update ioctl documentationMárton Németh
Correct copy-paste problem: CDROMCLOSETRAY is about closing the tray, not opening it. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-25Documentation: fix the now deprecated reference to {set,reset}_scoop_gpioEric Miao
Due to recent patches removing the now deprecated references to {set,reset}_scoop_gpio() and converting them to the generic GPIO API, the references in the documentation also need to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-23can: Add documentation for virtual CAN driver usageOliver Hartkopp
This patch adds a usage documentation for the virtual CAN driver (vcan). Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txtOliver Neukum
The extended anchor API is documented Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-09-23Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh descriptionAndrew Morton
- s/s/seconds/ - s/10 seconds/60 seconds/ - Mention the zero-disables-it feature. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changesMarin Mitov
Make the example code consistent with changed API. Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@ispp.bas.bg> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-23CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policiesMartin Steigerwald
The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling policies it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information for it in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2 Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23Phonet: kernel documentationRemi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-22iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic optionFUJITA Tomonori
This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts 2842e5bf3115193f05dc9dac20f940e7abf44c1a. But just reverting the commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes. The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to discuss it): http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106 Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debugIngo Molnar
2008-09-22ALSA: virtuoso: add Xonar HDAV1.3 supportClemens Ladisch
Add support for the Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 and the Xonar HDAV1.3 Deluxe. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2008-09-22Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Thanks for breaking my tree :-) Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-09-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-09-19x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic codeJoerg Roedel
The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU too. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-18qlge: New Qlogic 10Gb Ethernet Driver.Ron Mercer
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
2008-09-16Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/memory-corruption-checkIngo Molnar
2008-09-15mac80211: clean up kdocJohannes Berg
A few errors sneaked in over time, some functions no longer exist, for some alternatives exist. This changes the docbook template to include the right things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15rfkill: remove transmitter blocking on suspendHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Currently, rfkill would stand in the way of properly supporting wireless devices that are capable of waking the system up from sleep or hibernation when they receive a special wireless message. It would also get in the way of mesh devices that need to remain operational even during platform suspend. To avoid that, stop trying to block the transmitters on the rfkill class suspend handler. Drivers that need rfkill's older behaviour will have to implement it by themselves in their own suspend handling. Do note that rfkill *will* attempt to restore the transmitter state on resume in any situation. This happens after the driver's resume method is called by the suspend core (class devices resume after the devices they are attached to have been resumed). The following drivers need to check if they need to explicitly block their transmitters in their own suspend handlers (maintainers Cc'd): arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c drivers/net/usb/hso.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/* (USB might need it?) drivers/net/wireless/b43/ (SSB over USB might need it?) drivers/misc/hp-wmi.c eeepc-laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) Compal laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) toshiba-acpi w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Cezary Jackiewicz <cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com> Cc: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructureLuis R. Rodriguez
This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution, and to replace the initial centralized code we have where: * only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU * regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter * all rules were built statically in the kernel We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules without updating the kernel. Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to further help compliance. Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of this. For more information see: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter, ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically (US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY. These old static definitions and the module parameter is being scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless. If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory domain for us. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-13Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpioDavid Brownell
Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13coredump_filter: add description of bit 4Hidehiro Kawai
There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the documentation. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: 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>
2008-09-13cpuset: hotplug documentation fixLi Zefan
If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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>
2008-09-13multiq: Further multiqueue cleanupAlexander Duyck
This patch resolves a few issues found with multiq including wording suggestions and a problem seen in the allocation of queues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-13skbedit: Fix a typo in the documentationAlexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12pkt_action: add new action skbeditAlexander Duyck
This new action will have the ability to change the priority and/or queue_mapping fields on an sk_buff. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12pkt_sched: Add multiqueue scheduler supportAlexander Duyck
This patch is intended to add a qdisc to support the new tx multiqueue architecture by providing a band for each hardware queue. By doing this it is possible to support a different qdisc per physical hardware queue. This qdisc uses the skb->queue_mapping to select which band to place the traffic onto. It then uses a round robin w/ a check to see if the subqueue is stopped to determine which band to dequeue the packet from. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-10add deprecated ide-scsi to feature-removal-schedule.txtFUJITA Tomonori
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-10doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txtLai Jiangshan
atomic_inc_not_zero(v) return 0 if *v = 0. use spin_lock instead of write_lock for update lock. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-09-09update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changesChristoph Hellwig
In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining ->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone. ->get_sb and ->kill_sb didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-09This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"Gerrit Renker
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be submitted separately. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-09Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_expDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: net/dccp/input.c net/dccp/options.c
2008-09-07x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parametersJeremy Fitzhardinge
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime. This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruptionJeremy Fitzhardinge
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k. This change: - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel. Things like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however. - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it. - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero. Currently it's called in the x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-05Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (98 commits) V4L/DVB (8881): gspca: After 'while (retry--) {...}', retry will be -1 but not 0. V4L/DVB (8880): PATCH: Fix parents on some webcam drivers V4L/DVB (8877): b2c2 and bt8xx: udelay to mdelay V4L/DVB (8876): budget: udelay changed to mdelay V4L/DVB (8874): gspca: Adjust hstart for sn9c103/ov7630 and update usb-id's. V4L/DVB (8873): gspca: Bad image offset with rev012a of spca561 and adjust exposure. V4L/DVB (8872): gspca: Bad image format and offset with rev072a of spca561. V4L/DVB (8870): gspca: Fix dark room problem with sonixb. V4L/DVB (8869): gspca: Move the Sonix webcams with TAS5110C1B from sn9c102 to gspca. V4L/DVB (8868): gspca: Support for vga modes with sif sensors in sonixb. V4L/DVB (8844): dabusb_fpga_download(): fix a memory leak V4L/DVB (8843): tda10048_firmware_upload(): fix a memory leak V4L/DVB (8842): vivi_release(): fix use-after-free V4L/DVB (8840): dib0700: add basic support for Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx) V4L/DVB (8839): dib0700: add comment to identify 35th USB id pair V4L/DVB (8837): dvb: fix I2C adapters name size V4L/DVB (8835): gspca: Same pixfmt as the sn9c102 driver and raw Bayer added in sonixb. V4L/DVB (8834): gspca: Have a bigger buffer for sn9c10x compressed images. V4L/DVB (8833): gspca: Cleanup the sonixb code. V4L/DVB (8832): gspca: Bad pixelformat of vc0321 webcams. ...
2008-09-05Merge branch 'release-2.6.27' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-2.6: acer-wmi: remove debugfs entries upon unloading ACPI: Avoid bogus timeout about SMbus check fujitsu-laptop: fix regression for P8010 in 2.6.27-rc ACPI: Make Len Brown the ACPI maintainer again ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: wan radio control is not experimental PNPACPI: ignore the producer/consumer bit for extended IRQ descriptors acpi: add checking for NULL early param ACPI: Fix typo in "Disable MWAIT via DMI on broken Compal board" ACPI: Fix now signed module parameter. ACPI: Change package length error to warning ACPI: Fix now signed module parameter.
2008-09-04Merge branch 'fixes_stg' of ../git_old into fixesMauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-09-04ALSA: Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt: fix typoMichael Kerrisk
As noted by Gu Rui in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11444, there is a typo in Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. After checking the source (sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c), the report looks correct to me. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-09-04dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructureTomasz Grobelny
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of TX packets and provides two policies: * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and * a priority based policy (set via socket options). Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write queue (can be overridden via socket options). The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
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