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Takashi Iwai
dafbbb1fdb [ALSA] hda-intel - Fix pci_disable_msi() call
Fix the order to call pci_disable_msi() to be after free_irq().
(Otherwise pci_disable_msi() bugs you.)
Also, added a description of disable_msi option to documentation.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:46:42 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
cd417d4fe8 [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for LG LW25 laptop
Added the support for LG LW25 laptop with ALC880 codec.
It's the same codec model as LG LW20 (model=lg-lw).

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:46:37 +02:00
Tobin Davis
93ed150375 [ALSA] hda-codec - Add 5 stack audio support for Intel 965 systems
This patch renames the 965_2112 function ids to 965_3ST, and
adds functional support for 965_5ST (5 stack 7.1 surround).

Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:45:43 +02:00
Guillaume Munch
6d8590650e [ALSA] hda-codec - Support for SigmaTel 9872
- AR11M and AR11S uses the same chip hence we claim to support the AR Series.
- Added commentary about STAC9225s which shares the same id as CXD9872RD.
- Added entry for 7662 but won't work automatically until pci_subdevice
  is known.
- 'vaio' model now corresponds to CXD9872RD_VAIO for backward compat.
- Replaced STAC766x_VAIO with CXD9872RD_VAIO, STAC9872AK_VAIO, STAC9872K_VAIO
  and CXD9872AKD_VAIO
- Added 'vaio-ar' model for potential future modifications.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Munch <diabo@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:43:47 +02:00
Vladimir Avdonin
bab282b912 [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix for Acer laptops with ALC883 codec
Patch enables the internal speaker on acer laptops with ALC883.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Avdonin <vldmrrr@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:43:38 +02:00
Guillaume Munch
99ccc560b7 [ALSA] Add support for Sony Vaio AR 11B
This patch adds automatic detection for Sigmatel ID 7664,
the sound chip in Sony Vaio AR 11B (european name).
- patch_stac7661 becomes patch_stac766x
- .id = 0x83847664 is added

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Munch <diabo@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:41:14 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
22309c3e0c [ALSA] Added model for Uniwill laptop with ALC861
Added a new model 'uniwill-m31' for Uniwill laptops with ALC861
codec chip.  The patch is taken from ALSA bug#2035, and modifeid.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:40:41 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
4b146cb087 [ALSA] Misc fixes for Realtek HD-audio codecs
- Added model=arima for Arima W820Di1 with ALC882 codec chip
- Added EAPD-control verbs to TCL S700 init verbs
- Added missing model strings for Realtek codecs (to be specified
  via module option explicitly for testing/debugging)

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:39:22 +02:00
Matthias Koenig
68ab801e32 [ALSA] Add snd-mts64 driver for ESI Miditerminal 4140
Added snd-mts64 driver for Ego Systems (ESI) Miditerminal 4140
by Matthias Koenig <mk@phasorlab.de>.
The driver requires parport (CONFIG_PARPORT).

Signed-off-by: Matthias Koenig <mk@phasorlab.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:39:16 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
304dcaac91 [ALSA] Add support of Benq laptop with ALC262
Added the support of Benq laptop with ALC262 codec.
A model string 'benq' is added, too.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:38:50 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
6d177ba783 [ALSA] Add hp-bpc model type for HP laptops
Added 'hp-bpc' model type for HP xw4400-compatible laptops.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:38:46 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
5a053d012d [ALSA] Add model entry for Clevo m665n laptop
Added the proper model entry for Clevo m665n laptop with ALC880 codec.
Also, added a model string 'clevo' to enable the clevo-type model option.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:38:41 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
2b29b13c57 [ALSA] Deprecate snd_card_free_in_thread()
Deprecated snd_card_free_in_thread(), replaced with
snd_card_free_when_closed().

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2006-09-23 10:37:03 +02:00
Herbert Xu
878b901466 [CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and me
This patch updates the documentation to reflect the switch from digest
to hash.  It also replaces notes about emailing James Morris to refer
to me instead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:20 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
79e453d49b Revert mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changes
This reverts commits 11012d419c and
40dd2d20f2, which allowed us to use the
MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked
reserved in the e820 memory tables.

Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some
newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old
2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage.

Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken
Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-19 08:15:22 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
080f22c0dc [NET]: Mark frame diverter for future removal.
The code for frame diverter is unmaintained and has bitrotted.
The number of users is very small and the code has lots of problems.
If anyone is using it, they maybe exposing themselves to bad packet attacks.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:14 -07:00
Simon Horman
72c4a13aaa [IPVS]: Document the ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txt
I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but
if it is, here is some text to put there.

Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:03 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b3a8a40da5 [TCP]: Turn ABC off.
Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly
penalizes applications that do small writes.  Add better documentation
to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to
turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-17 23:21:02 -07:00
Mike Miller
1883c5aba9 [PATCH] cciss: version update, new hw
Add support for new hardware and bumps the version to 3.6.10.  It seems
there were several changes introduced including soft_irq.  I decided to
bump the major number to reflect these changes.  Since we're still
supporting older vendor kernels I need some way differentiate between
kernel versions <=2.6.10 and newer kernels >=2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13 07:32:16 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
354332ee44 [PATCH] x86: reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen
Claim an ID number for Xen in the LOADER_TYPE field.

Also, keep the table in zero-page.txt consistent with boot.txt.

[hpa says: 6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been
 unofficially used.  It seemed easier to skip it for now.]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13 07:32:14 -07:00
Greg KH
af45f32d25 [PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel
The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13 07:32:14 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
1e5f5e5cd6 [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd round
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.

A rationale of the patch is in
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4c15343167 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
  [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile
  [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase
  [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms
  [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S
  [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition
  [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases
  [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2
  [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
  [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking
  [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file
  [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts
  [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer
  [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense
  [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc
  [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree.
  [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too.
  [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build
  [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export
2006-08-30 21:44:06 -07:00
Andi Kleen
40dd2d20f2 [PATCH] x86: Disable MMCONFIG on Intel SDV using DMI blacklist
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.

This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-30 16:05:16 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
3efbdd136e [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation
The booting-without-of.txt had incorrect definition for the sense codes
for an OpenPIC controller

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-30 10:36:18 +10:00
Paul Jackson
4c4d50f7b3 [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_map
Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to
dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier.  Make
this top cpus file read-only.

On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't
actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of
systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset.

If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use
of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed
in the top cpuset.  This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels
that didn't have cpusets enabled.

In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems
actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes
the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read
only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map.  Thus
tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed
by their cpuset.

Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem,
driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:32 -07:00
Tom Zanussi
e88d78f6ba [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interface
Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match
the relayfs->relay changes.  It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the
process.

It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap,
thanks for those.

The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found
on the sourceforge relayfs website.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a2e0b56316 [PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpable
Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but
fs.suid_dumpable.

How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows...

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:28 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
897522ea1c [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/
I was asked several times to include userspace example code into
Documentation, so if there is no policy against it, consider attached patch
for 2.6.18. This program works with included Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
connector module.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 18:42:00 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f834c75542 Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 2006-08-26 13:04:23 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b7277155f8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-08-23 21:11:56 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c712a9de94 Input: remove dead URLs from Doclumentation/input/joystick.txt
Closes #2804.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-08-23 00:48:33 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ef7d1b244f Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2006-08-18 11:02:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ed0da6fc9d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-08-18 09:20:04 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
f583165f6a [POWERPC] Convert to mac-address for ethernet MAC address data.
Also accept "local-mac-address".  However the old "address"
is now obsolete, but accepted for backwards compatibility.
It should be removed after all device trees have been
converted to use "mac-address".

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-18 09:50:16 +10:00
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
fb33f82568 [NET]: Terminology in ip-sysctl.txt
this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl
in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max",
while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values.
Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max"
values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 16:29:50 -07:00
Edgar Hucek
b64ef8afa5 [PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection
Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for
imacfb.

Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-14 12:54:28 -07:00
Brandon Philips
e9539ee73a genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txt
block/genhd.c no longer in drivers/.  Update Documentation/kobjects.txt

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-11 14:06:05 -07:00
James Bottomley
00dd7b7d26 Merge ../linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c

Stylistic differences in two separate fixes for buffer->request_buffer
problem.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-08-06 12:42:33 -05:00
Maxime Bizon
8b23d04dd2 [PATCH] doc: update panic_on_oops documentation
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
12952784e5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Propagate acpi_processor_preregister_performance return value.
  [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules.
  [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Rename & fix multipliers table
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix power state test to do something more useful
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Readd accidentally dropped line
  [CPUFREQ] Make longhaul_walk_callback() static
  [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Initialise later.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Workaround issues with APIC.
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Hook into ACPI C states.
  [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
2006-08-04 09:41:22 -07:00
Or Gerlitz
8ddc7c5326 IB/ipoib: Remove broken link from Kconfig and documentation
Remove references to the IPoIB IETF working group as it has been closed.

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-08-03 10:48:31 -07:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
064e875a4c USB: doc: fixes devio.c location in proc_usb_info.txt.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-02 16:41:42 -07:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
0e74b06aff USB: doc: usb-help.txt update.
http://www.suse.cz/development/linux-usb/ doesn't exist anymore.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-02 16:41:42 -07:00
Mattia Dongili
9c9a43ed27 [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
I just stumbled on this bug/feature, this is how to reproduce it:

# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave
# echo 1800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq ; echo $?
0
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave

Here it is. The kernel refuses to set a min_freq higher than the
max_freq but it allows a max_freq lower than min_freq (lowering min_freq
also).

This behaviour is pretty straightforward (but undocumented) and it
doesn't return an error altough failing to accomplish the requested
action (set min_freq).
The problem (IMO) is basically that userspace is not allowed to set a
full policy atomically while the kernel always does that thus it must
enforce an ordering on operations.

The attached patch returns -EINVAL if trying to increase frequencies
starting from scaling_min_freq and documents the correct ordering of writes.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--
2006-07-31 18:37:05 -04:00
Thomas Horsley
0a5eca6530 [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt
I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd image on a
fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file is apparently obsolete.
Here is a patch which I hope will reduce future confusion for others.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:44 -07:00
Roland McGrath
0b0bf7a3cc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables.  The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker.  The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both.  In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash".  The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents.  To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e.  preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section.  The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.

The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel.  On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.

This patch addresses the problem in two ways.

First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
 This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.

Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced.  This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland.  There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries.  The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has.  If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev
953a7f2066 [PATCH] Typo in ub clause of devices.txt
Change "Thrid" into "Third", and realign similarly to other entries.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:42 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
bc7455fa3b [PATCH] Doc/SubmittingPatches cleanups
A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches:
- mention SubmitChecklist
- remove mention of my simple patch script tools
- remove last-updated line

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
0fcb78c22f [PATCH] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functions
kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation.  This
adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some
of the functions.

Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they
finally become visible.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00