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Linus Torvalds
12dbf3fc4d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-14 12:16:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
61b7efddc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spi-2.6 2006-01-14 10:43:26 -08:00
Xose Vazquez Perez
e1b114ee90 [PATCH] docs: update some updated code docs
Based on comments from Randy Dunlap on my previous commit
5b0ed2c64d

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 10:39:53 -08:00
David Brownell
2e10c84b9c [PATCH] SPI: add spi_butterfly driver
This adds a bitbanging parport based adaptor cable for AVR Butterfly, giving
SPI links to its DataFlash chip and (eventually) firmware running in the card.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
David Brownell
7111763d39 [PATCH] spi: misc fixes
This collects some small SPI patches that seem to be missing from the MM tree:

  - spi_butterfly kbuild hooks got dropped somehow; this restores them
  - quick fix for a (theoretical?) m25p80_write() oops noted by Andrew
  - quick fix for a potential config-specific oops for mtd_dataflash()
  - minor doc tweaks

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
David Brownell
0c868461fc [PATCH] SPI core tweaks, bugfix
This includes various updates to the SPI core:

  - Fixes a driver model refcount bug in spi_unregister_master() paths.

  - The spi_master structures now have wrappers which help keep drivers
    from needing class-level get/put for device data or for refcounts.

  - Check for a few setup errors that would cause oopsing later.

  - Docs say more about memory management.  Highlights the use of DMA-safe
    i/o buffers, and zero-initializing spi_message and such metadata.

  - Provide a simple alloc/free for spi_message and its spi_transfer;
    this is only one of the possible memory management policies.

Nothing to break code that already works.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
b885244eb2 [PATCH] spi: add spi_driver to SPI framework
This is a refresh of the "Simple SPI Framework" found in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1
which makes the following changes:

  * There's now a "struct spi_driver".  This increase the footprint
    of the core a bit, since it now includes code to do what the driver
    core was previously handling directly.  Documentation and comments
    were updated to match.

  * spi_alloc_master() now does class_device_initialize(), so it can
    at least be refcounted before spi_register_master().  To match,
    spi_register_master() switched over to class_device_add().

  * States explicitly that after transfer errors, spi_devices will be
    deselected.  We want fault recovery procedures to work the same
    for all controller drivers.

  * Minor tweaks:  controller_data no longer points to readonly data;
    prevent some potential cast-from-null bugs with container_of calls;
    clarifies some existing kerneldoc,

And a few small cleanups.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
David Brownell
8ae12a0d85 [PATCH] spi: simple SPI framework
This is the core of a small SPI framework, implementing the model of a
queue of messages which complete asynchronously (with thin synchronous
wrappers on top).

  - It's still less than 2KB of ".text" (ARM).  If there's got to be a
    mid-layer for something so simple, that's the right size budget.  :)

  - The guts use board-specific SPI device tables to build the driver
    model tree.  (Hardware probing is rarely an option.)

  - This version of Kconfig includes no drivers.  At this writing there
    are two known master controller drivers (PXA/SSP, OMAP MicroWire)
    and three protocol drivers (CS8415a, ADS7846, DataFlash) with LKML
    mentions of other drivers in development.

  - No userspace API.  There are several implementations to compare.
    Implement them like any other driver, and bind them with sysfs.

The changes from last version posted to LKML (on 11-Nov-2005) are minor,
and include:

  - One bugfix (removes a FIXME), with the visible effect of making device
    names be "spiB.C" where B is the bus number and C is the chipselect.

  - The "caller provides DMA mappings" mechanism now has kerneldoc, for
    DMA drivers that want to be fancy.

  - Hey, the framework init can be subsys_init.  Even though board init
    logic fires earlier, at arch_init ... since the framework init is
    for driver support, and the board init support uses static init.

  - Various additional spec/doc clarifications based on discussions
    with other folk.  It adds a brief "thank you" at the end, for folk
    who've helped nudge this framework into existence.

As I've said before, I think that "protocol tweaking" is the main support
that this driver framework will need to evolve.

From: Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com>

  Update the SPI framework to remove a potential priority inversion case by
  reverting to kmalloc if the pre-allocated DMA-safe buffer isn't available.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
Hans Verkuil
b3d37042d7 V4L/DVB (3363): Add support for Samsung tuner TCPN 2121P30A
- Add support for Samsung tuner TCPN 2121P30A, used in
  Hauppauge PVR-500 cards.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-13 14:10:25 -02:00
Mark Haverkamp
6171b5eff2 [SCSI] aacraid: README update
Received From Mark Salyzyn.

Move the README from the driver directory to the Documentation directory.
Updated the documentation, added descriptions for cards that
were missing.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-12 11:55:16 -06:00
akpm@osdl.org
198e2f1811 [PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect
)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.

The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:

- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
  measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
  that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
  distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
  the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
  whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
  time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
  is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
  distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
  and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.

  [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
    assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
    the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
    the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
    see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]

Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:

- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
  sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
  cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
  cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
  occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
  'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
  the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.

  This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
  CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
  will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
  any caches.

(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)

Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.

Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:

	migration_cost=1000,2000,3000

will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.

Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:

	migration_factor=120

will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.

I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:

Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]
 [00]:     -     1.7(1)
 [01]:   1.7(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
 ---------------------

Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.

Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]
 [00]:     -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)
 [01]:   0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)  0.0(0)
 [02]:   0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -     0.4(1)
 [03]:   0.4(1)  0.0(0)  0.4(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
 ---------------------

Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.

8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:

 ---------------------
 migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
 ---------------------
           [00]    [01]    [02]    [03]    [04]    [05]    [06]    [07]
 [00]:     -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [01]:  19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [02]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [03]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [04]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [05]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1) 19.2(1)
 [06]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -    19.2(1)
 [07]:  19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)    -
 ---------------------
 cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
 ---------------------

This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
593195f9b2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-11 19:36:32 -08:00
Andi Kleen
7eb903f4a5 [PATCH] x86_64: Add documentation for CPU hotplug ACPI extension
Cc: len.brown@intel.com, ashok.ray@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:11 -08:00
Andi Kleen
f62a91f691 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't reserve hotplug CPUs by default
Most users don't need it so no need to waste memory.
This means an user has to specify the appropiate number of
hotplug CPUs on the command line with additional_cpus=...
or fix their BIOS to follow the convention in
Documentation/x86-64/cpu-hotplug-spec

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 19:01:11 -08:00
Tore Anderson
e56d5ae305 [PATCH] ext3: fix documentation of online resizing
Undocument the non-working resize= mount option in ext3, and add some
references to the ext2resize package instead, which appears to be the only
proper way of doing online resizing of ext3 filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
75ba0861bc [PATCH] doc: refer to kdump in oops-tracing.txt
Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures.  It is better
to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard kernel crash dump
patches.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
8428cfe893 [PATCH] kdump: add dmesg gdbmacro into document
Add gdb macro which print the kernel ring buffer into kdump docs

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Michael Krufky
6bfb2e1f19 V4L/DVB (3349): Add PCI ID for UltraView DVB-T Plus, rebranded DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus
- Add PCI ID for UltraView DVB-T Plus,rebranded DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-12 00:10:59 -02:00
Julian Calaby
2d05ae6b5b V4L/DVB (3340): Add bttv card MagicTV (rebranded MachTV)
- Add bttv card MagicTV (rebranded MachTV)

Signed-off-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-11 19:40:09 -02:00
Paul Jackson
864913f30d cpuset two little doc fixes
Two little cpuset documentation fixes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-11 02:01:38 +01:00
Jesper Juhl
ffd59daceb Tiny esthetic changes to Documentation/laptop-mode.txt
Here's a tiny patch making a few esthetic changes to
Documentation/laptop-mode.txt
To me this patch makes sense, but feel free to disagree, I don't feel
strongly about it at all.

It changes a single URL to its strictly correct form (directories should
end in /), and it makes the arguments to main in an included example
program follow convention and be named argc and argv.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-11 01:48:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ab396e91bf Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
Fix up some trivial conflicts in {i386|ia64}/Makefile
2006-01-10 08:21:33 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
e48e99093c [PATCH] Docs update: small fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt
Small spelling, formating & similar fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:55 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
5dd94ed249 [PATCH] Docs update: remove obsolete patch from locks.txt
Remove obsolete patch from Documentation/locks.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
c63ca3c8b0 [PATCH] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for filesystems/ext3.txt
Spelling fixes, formating changes and corrections for
 Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
c594a50db4 [PATCH] Docs update: typos, corrections and additions to applying-patches.txt
Typos/corrections.

A few extra additions on top of Randy's fixes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Martin Waitz
be217ff21c [PATCH] DocBook: add .gitignore file
when ignoring all DocBook output files git-status output becomes meaningful
again.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:52 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
dc3d28d02e [PATCH] CodingStyle correction
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:52 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
df78488de7 [PATCH] hrtimer: hrtimer documentation
add hrtimer docbook and design document

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:37 -08:00
Maneesh Soni
a7e670d828 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update
Update the kdump documentation to reflect the changes due to recent kernel
config option changes for kexec and kdump.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
aac04b32f3 [PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the
  crashed kernel.  This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools
  to capture kernel.

Changes in this version :

- Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:27 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org
69cda7b1f0 [PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add memmmap command line option
)

From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- This patch introduces the memmap option for x86_64 similar to i386.

- memmap=exactmap enables setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified
  by the user.

Changes in this version:

- Used e820_end_of_ram() to find the max_pfn as suggested by Andi kleen.

- removed PFN_UP & PFN_DOWN macros

- Printing the user defined map also.

Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <nharipra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
80c0531514 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/mutex-2.6 2006-01-09 17:31:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a457aa6c2b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-09 17:06:53 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f3f54ffa70 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, documentation
Add mutex design related documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:20 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e82443c092 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: indentation fix
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:20:30 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
943ffb587c spelling: s/retreive/retrieve/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:10:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0581445007 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-09 15:09:03 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
a58a414fd5 spelling: s/usefull/useful/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:08:17 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f17578decc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-09 13:03:58 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
682e852e26 [PATCH] Fix more "if ((err = foo() < 0))" typos
Another reason to use:

	ret = foo();
	if (ret < 0)
		goto out;

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 13:02:51 -08:00
Michael Krufky
cec418346e V4L/DVB (3336): Bluebird firmware hosting moved to common dvb firmware dir on linuxtv.org
- Get_dvb_firmware script updated accordingly:
- my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/~mkrufky/dvb-usb-bluebird-01.fw";
+ my $url = "http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/firmware/dvb-usb-blue$

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 18:21:40 -02:00
Chris Pascoe
43eabb4e22 V4L/DVB (3311): DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital PCI support
- Support for DVB reception on the PCI half of the DViCO DVB-T Dual Digital.

Signed-off-by: Chris Pascoe <c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 18:21:28 -02:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
065c635907 [PATCH] PCI Error Recovery: documentation
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers.
Recovering from those errors requires an infrastructure to notify
affected device drivers of the error, and a way of walking through
a reset sequence.  This patch adds documentation describing the
current error recovery proposal.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:21 -08:00
Jesse Barnes
5d135dff53 [PATCH] PCI: document sysfs rom file interface
idr gently pointed out today that not only is the sysfs rom file
interface somewhat unintuitive (despite my efforts and initial
implementation), but it's also undocumented!  This patch to
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt corrects the latter problem; the
former is a userland ABI now though, so we're stuck with it for awhile
at least.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Knut Petersen
44637a12f8 [PATCH] Update cyblafb driver
This is a major update to the cyblafb framebuffer driver. Most
of the stuff has been tested in the mm tree.

Main advantages:
============
  - vxres > xres support
  - ywrap and xpan support
  - much faster for almost all modes (e.g. 1280x1024-16bpp
     draws more than 41 full screens of text instead of about 25
     full screens of text per second on authors Epia 5000)
  - module init/exit code fixed
  - bugs triggered by console rotation fixed
  - lots of minor improvements
  - startup modes suitable for high performance scrolling
     in all directions

This diff  also contains a lot of white space fixes.

No side effects are possible, only one single graphics core is affected.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 10:00:36 -08:00
Peter Missel
4aa6ba513e V4L/DVB (3295): Add analog support for LifeView FlyDVB Trio.
- Add support for LifeView FlyDVB Trio.
- all analog inputs are supported and working, including FM radio
- TO DO: dvb & remote control

Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:45 -02:00
Manenti Marco
f39624fda0 V4L/DVB (3294): Add Kworld/Vstream Xpert DVB-T card with cx22702 tuner.
- Add Kworld/Vstream Xpert DVB-T card with cx22702 tuner.

Signed-off-by: Manenti Marco <marco_manenti@colman.it>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:45 -02:00
Michael Krufky
d8e6acf2ec V4L/DVB (3287): Add DViCO Bluebird firmware to dvb_get_firmware script
- Add DViCO Bluebird firmware to dvb_get_firmware script,
for FusionHDTV USB devices.
- Use usb alt setting 0 for EP4 transfer (dvb-t),
- Use usb alt setting 7 for EP2 transfer (atsc)
- Added comment to lgdt330x.c to indicate support for
DViCO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold.
Thanks to: Jeff Lee <JeffLee@dvico.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:42 -02:00
Ville Skytt\
12e66f6573 V4L/DVB (3242): make the firmware dir docs consistent in the v4l-dvb tree.
- make the firmware dir documentation and comments consistent in the v4l-dvb tree.

Signed-off-by: Ville Skytt <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:38 -02:00
Chris Pascoe
fc40b261db V4L/DVB (3220): Add support for VP-3054 HDTV board
- Added support for VP-3054 (aka DigitalNow DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro!).
- This board has a secondary I2C bus and remote control.
- Added a new module to handle secondary I2C bus on this board.

Signed-off-by: Chris Pascoe <c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:35 -02:00
Michael Krufky
50c25fff53 V4L/DVB (3218): Whitespace cleanups
- minor whitespace cleanups

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:34 -02:00
Ricardo Cerqueira
41d70c26c6 V4L/DVB (3216): saa7134 card #58 has a newer revision with a new subsystem ID
- Added new ID for different revision of card #58. It's the same card,
but with a tda8275a instead of a tda8275

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:34 -02:00
Michael Krufky
83ac8722be V4L/DVB (3196): correct Thomson DTT 761x frequency ranges
- Corrected Thomson DTT 7611 tuner programming, based on spec sheet
- renamed to Thomson DTT 761x
- applies to DTT 7611 7611A 7612 7613 7613A 7614 7615 7615A
(DTT 7610 is similar, but slightly different programming)
- corrected frequency ranges for analog and digital modes

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:29 -02:00
Michael Krufky
5ea892f156 V4L/DVB (3166): "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in" - fix typo.
- "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in" - fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:26 -02:00
Steven Toth
c432a072b6 V4L/DVB (3092): Add support for another Nova-T-PCI PCI subdevice 0x9001
- Add support for another Nova-T-PCI PCI subdevice 0x9001

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:13 -02:00
Steven Toth
611900c185 V4L/DVB (3089): Adding support for the Hauppauge HVR1100 and HVR1100-LP products.
- Add support for the Hauppauge HVR1100 and HVR1100-LP products.
- Add i2c_gate_ctrl callback function to dvb_frontend_ops struct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:12 -02:00
Vadim Catana
0e0351e370 V4L (1007): Add support for KWorld DVB-S 100
- Add support for KWorld DVB-S 100, based on the same chips as Hauppauge
Nova-S Plus (CX23883/CX24123/CX24109), without the Intersil ISL6421,
which is used for LNB control.
- LNB voltage and tone are controled by LNBDC and LNBTone bits from
register 0x29 of the CX24123 demodulator.
- The MO_GP0_IO register from CX23883 is used to turn LNB power on and off.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Catana <skystar@moldova.cc>
Acked-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth
fb56cb65e4 V4L (0990): Enable IR support for the Nova-S-Plus
- Enable IR support for the Nova-S-Plus.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth
0fa14aa621 V4L (0979): Added V4L support for the Nova-S-Plus and Nova-SE2 DVB-S products
- Added V4L support for the Nova-S-Plus and Nova-SE2 DVB-S products.
- Basic DVB-S support is working, analog video inputs work.
- It has one or two fixme comments, primarily analog GPIOs (audio) and eeprom parsing.
- CX24123 code (in cx88-dvb.c) disabled until the
- cx24123 module is added to dvb-kernel cvs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:02 -02:00
Steven Toth
cd1257d860 V4L (1023): Added Hauppauge ImpactVCB board
- Modifications to bttv to support the Hauppauge ImpactVCB product
(Model #64900).

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:01 -02:00
Jrg Schummer
f639c9b21b V4L (1019): Added basic support (tv + radio) for TerraTec Cinergy 250 PCI
- Added "TerraTec Cinergy 250 PCI" board (tv and radio).
- svideo not tested
- IR yet not working

Signed-off-by: Jrg Schummer <joerg.schummer@web.de>
Signed-off-by:  Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:01 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
17cbe2e583 V4L (963): Explicit compat_ioctl32 handler to em28xx
- Included explicit compat_ioctl32 handler.
- removed extra line on cardlist.


Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:24:58 -02:00
Eric Paris
8fad6939af [PATCH] update bonding.txt to not show ip address on slaves
ifenslave, as of abi version 2, does not set the ip address on the slave
interfaces.  The documentation example however still shows that the
ensalved interfaces should have the same IP as the master.  The patch
simply removes the lines from the example which should no longer appear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

 bonding.txt |    2 --
 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-09 10:48:09 -05:00
Arjan van de Ven
a771f2b82a [PATCH] Add a section about inlining to Documentation/CodingStyle
Adds a bit of text to Documentation/Codingstyle to state that inlining
everything "just because" is a bad idea

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:06 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
58591e8a1f [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: diffstat options
Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a136564702 [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Andy Isaacson
37a327957e [PATCH] block/stat.txt
I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat,
so I wrote up the following.  I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens,
could you give a yea or nay on this?

In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the
request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00
Rob Landley
99aef427e2 [PATCH] update to the initramfs docs
Based on questions people have asked me.  Repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
90f2447d08 [PATCH] Documentation: Small applying-patches.txt update
Minor update to Documentation/applying-patches.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:59 -08:00
Johann Lombardi
71b9625744 [PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount option
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal
device to be specified.

The syntax is as follows:
# mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ...
where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32.

Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:56 -08:00
Ashok Raj
c809406b4f [PATCH] Updated CPU hotplug documentation
Thanks to Nathan Lynch for the review and comments.  Thanks to Joel Schopp
for the pointer to add user space scipts.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:55 -08:00
Xose Vazquez Perez
5b0ed2c64d [PATCH] docs: updated some code docs
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells
b5f545c880 [PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys
Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to
instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4.

The patch makes the following changes:

 (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type
     to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be
     spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the
     rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance.

     The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation
     name are passed to the method.

 (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key
     to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in
     /proc/pid/cmdline.

     This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the
     patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no
     longer there.

     A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow.

 (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this
     key will retrieve the information.

 (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the
     authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here
     for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the
     lowest level of the session keyring.

     This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to
     switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and
     so is usable in multithreaded programs.

     The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec.

 (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that
     permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated
     key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated
     with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings.

     This function can also clear the assumption.

 (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently
     assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY).

 (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is
     assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if
     instantiation is successful.

 (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the
     file of permissions functions.

 (9) The documentation is updated.

From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

    Build fix.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells
cab8eb594e [PATCH] keys: Discard duplicate keys from a keyring on link
Cause any links within a keyring to keys that match a key to be linked into
that keyring to be discarded as a link to the new key is added.  The match is
contingent on the type and description strings being the same.

This permits requests, adds and searches to displace negative, expired,
revoked and dead keys easily.  After some discussion it was concluded that
duplicate valid keys should probably be discarded also as they would otherwise
hide the new key.

Since request_key() is intended to be the primary method by which keys are
added to a keyring, duplicate valid keys wouldn't be an issue there as that
function would return an existing match in preference to creating a new key.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
David Howells
017679c4d4 [PATCH] keys: Permit key expiry time to be set
Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or
removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:53 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
6b34350f49 [PATCH] relayfs: Documentation cleanup, remove obsolete info
librelay and relay-app.h have been retired - update Documentation to reflect
that.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
df49af8f33 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on global relay buffers
Documentation update for creating global buffers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
03d78d11d9 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documentation on relay files in other filesystems
Documentation update for creating relay files in other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Tom Zanussi
925ac8a2b6 [PATCH] relayfs: add Documention for non-relay files
Documentation update for non-relay files.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:50 -08:00
Nick Piggin
095975da26 [PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives
Use atomic_inc_not_zero for rcu files instead of special case rcuref.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
Paul Jackson
90c9cc4043 [PATCH] cpuset: remove marker_pid documentation
Remove documentation for the cpuset 'marker_pid' feature, that was in the
patch "cpuset: change marker for relative numbering" That patch was previously
pulled from *-mm at my (pj) request.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:43 -08:00
Paul Jackson
bd5e09cf70 [PATCH] cpuset: document additional features
Document the additional cpuset features:
	notify_on_release
	marker_pid
	memory_pressure
	memory_pressure_enabled

Rearrange and improve formatting of existing documentation for
cpu_exclusive and mem_exclusive features.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:43 -08:00
Paul Jackson
45b07ef31d [PATCH] cpusets: swap migration interface
Add a boolean "memory_migrate" to each cpuset, represented by a file
containing "0" or "1" in each directory below /dev/cpuset.

It defaults to false (file contains "0").  It can be set true by writing
"1" to the file.

If true, then anytime that a task is attached to the cpuset so marked, the
pages of that task will be moved to that cpuset, preserving, to the extent
practical, the cpuset-relative placement of the pages.

Also anytime that a cpuset so marked has its memory placement changed (by
writing to its "mems" file), the tasks in that cpuset will have their pages
moved to the cpusets new nodes, preserving, to the extent practical, the
cpuset-relative placement of the moved pages.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:43 -08:00
Rohit Seth
8ad4b1fb82 [PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable
As recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and
high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists.  This patch makes these two
variables configurable through /proc interface.

A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added.  This entry
controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for
each per cpu page list.  The min value for this is 8.  It means that we
don't allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any
single per_cpu_pagelist.

The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result.  It
is set to pcp->high/4.  The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton
9d0243bca3 [PATCH] drop-pagecache
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can.  THis
operation requires root permissions.

It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.

Caveats:

a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.

b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
   so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.

This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks.  We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Nicolas Kaiser
2c066042ec [PATCH] Documentation/powerpc: index update
Add three files not mentioned in Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX.
Sort alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:53:34 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
67207b9664 [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, base
This is the current version of the spu file system, used
for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.

This release is almost identical to the version for the
2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.

The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
spu application, but does not have any support for
debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.

See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
spufs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:49:12 +11:00
Sam Ravnborg
ad14336de8 kbuild: remove GCC_VERSION
This was causing some ordering problems.  Remove the up-front evaluation
and just revaluate the compiler version each time we need it.

(The up-front evaluation was problematic because some architectures modify
the value of $(CC)).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-08 19:58:51 +01:00
Dave Jones
a61c2d78ce [SERIAL] Make the number of UARTs registered configurable.
Also add a nr_uarts module option to the 8250 code to override
this, up to a maximum of CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS

This should appease people who complain about a proliferation
of /dev/ttyS & /sysfs nodes whilst at the same time allowing
a single kernel image to support the rarer occasions of
lots of devices.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-07 23:18:19 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
b9abaa3fb7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-01-07 11:29:51 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
d758a8fa8c [ACPI] fix kernel-doc warnings in acpi/scan.c
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-07 05:05:31 -05:00
Len Brown
add5b5ee99 Auto-update from upstream 2006-01-07 02:05:40 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
0feb9bfcfa Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6 2006-01-06 15:25:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
57d1c91fa6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-01-06 15:23:56 -08:00
Len Brown
25da097460 Auto-update from upstream 2006-01-06 16:34:21 -05:00
Len Brown
036d25f79d [ACPI] linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org replaces acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-06 16:19:26 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ccf18968b1 Merge ../torvalds-2.6/ 2006-01-06 12:59:59 -08:00