- Dec 10, 2006
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Chuck Ebbert authored
Document how to decode a binary IOCTL number. Signed-off-by:
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Mention the new fault-injection test framework. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add some kernel coding style comments, mostly pulled from emails by Andrew Morton, Jesper Juhl, and Randy Dunlap. - add paragraph on switch/case indentation (with fixes) - add paragraph on multiple-assignments - add more on Braces - add section on Spaces; add typeof, alignof, & __attribute__ with sizeof; add more on postfix/prefix increment/decrement operators - add paragraph on function breaks in source files; add info on function prototype parameter names - add paragraph on EXPORT_SYMBOL placement - add section on /*-comment style, long-comment style, and data declarations and comments - correct some chapter number references that were missed when chapters were renumbered Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Stephen Street authored
Stabilize PIO mode transfers against a range of word sizes and FIFO thresholds and fixes word size setup/override issues. 1) 16 and 32 bit DMA/PIO transfers broken due to timing differences. 2) Potential for bad transfer counts due to transfer size assumptions. 3) Setup function broken is multiple ways. 4) Per transfer bit_per_word changes break DMA setup in pump_tranfers. 5) False positive timeout are not errors. 6) Changes in pxa2xx_spi_chip not effective in calls to setup. 7) Timeout scaling wrong for PXA255 NSSP. 8) Driver leaks memory while busy during unloading. Known issues: SPI_CS_HIGH and SPI_LSB_FIRST settings in struct spi_device are not handled. Testing: This patch has been test against the "random length, random bits/word, random data (verified on loopback) and stepped baud rate by octaves (3.6MHz to 115kHz)" test. It is robust in PIO mode, using any combination of tx and rx thresholds, and also in DMA mode (which internally computes the thresholds). Much thanks to Ned Forrester for exhaustive reviews, fixes and testing. The driver is substantially better for his efforts. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Street <stephen@streetfiresound.com> Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Dec 08, 2006
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Raphael Assenat authored
This patch adds a new ioctl range for the mbxfb driver. Signed-off-by:
Raphael Assenat <raph@8d.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by:
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Don Mullis authored
Correct, disambiguate, and reformat documentation. Signed-off-by:
Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch provides stacktrace filtering feature. The stacktrace filter allows failing only for the caller you are interested in. For example someone may want to inject kmalloc() failures into only e100 module. they want to inject not only direct kmalloc() call, but also indirect allocation, too. - e100_poll --> netif_receive_skb --> packet_rcv_spkt --> skb_clone --> kmem_cache_alloc This patch enables to detect function calls like this by stacktrace and inject failures. The script Documentaion/fault-injection/failmodule.sh helps it. The range of text section of loaded e100 is expected to be [/sys/module/e100/sections/.text, /sys/module/e100/sections/.exit.text) So failmodule.sh stores these values into /debug/failslab/address-start and /debug/failslab/address-end. The maximum stacktrace depth is specified by /debug/failslab/stacktrace-depth. Please see the example that demonstrates how to inject slab allocation failures only for a specific module in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt [dwm@meer.net: reject failure if any caller lies within specified range] Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc. Boot option: failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> <interval> -- specifies the interval of failures. <probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent. <space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be allocated safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/failslab/interval /debug/failslab/probability /debug/failslab/specifies /debug/failslab/times /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait Example: failslab=10,100,0,-1 slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch set provides some fault-injection capabilities. - kmalloc() failures - alloc_pages() failures - disk IO errors We can see what really happens if those failures happen. In order to enable these fault-injection capabilities: 1. Enable relevant config options (CONFIG_FAILSLAB, CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC, CONFIG_MAKE_REQUEST) and if you want to configure them via debugfs, enable CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS. 2. Build and boot with this kernel 3. Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior by boot option or debugfs - Boot option failslab= fail_page_alloc= fail_make_request= - Debugfs /debug/failslab/* /debug/fail_page_alloc/* /debug/fail_make_request/* Please refer to the Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt for details. 4. See what really happens. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Thomas Maier authored
Add a sysfs and debugfs interface to the pktcdvd driver. Look into the Documentation/ABI/testing/* files in the patch for more info. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Signed-off-by:
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Cornelia Huck authored
Signed-off-by:
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- Dec 07, 2006
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Stefan Richter authored
Follow-up to patch "Consolidate driver registering": Since I plan the lifetime of Linux 2.6.20 to be the deprecation phase of CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API, it seems fair to keep all previously exported symbols available with this option until this phase is over. Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter authored
There is no manpower available to reform oui.db into a library for use in more kernel subsystems. The low ratio of usefulness to size and the occasional need to update oui.db from IEEE's official list suggest to drop oui.db. I plan to make a userspace script available which translates the remaining numeric sysfs attributes to names of organizations. Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter authored
This also means that former parts of ieee1394's API will be subject to change or removal. Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter authored
Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter authored
Known to be affected: - libdc1394: prefers video1394 for now, old-style raw1394 support might be dropped eventually - OpenH323 PWLib, AVC video input module: uses libraw1394's old API Signed-off-by:
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Corey Minyard authored
Add the ability to hot add and remove interfaces in the ipmi_si driver. Any users who have the device open will get errors if they try to send a message. Signed-off-by:
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Corey Minyard authored
This modifies the IPMI driver so that a lower-level interface can be dynamically removed while in use so it can support hot-removal of hardware. It also adds the ability to specify and dynamically change the IPMI interface the watchdog timer and the poweroff code use. Signed-off-by:
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Sometimes the kernel prints something interesting while userspace bootup keeps messages turned off via loglevel. Enable the printing of /all/ kernel messages via the "ignore_loglevel" boot option. Off by default. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Torben Mathiasen authored
[jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by:
Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
Remove two different changelog files from fs/sysv/ and merges the INTRO file into Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync() dma_cache_sync() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_cache_sync to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix all its callers to pass it. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
dma_is_consistent() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_is_consistent to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix the sole caller to pass it. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Remove the videodev chapter from the kernel-api book. It's done much better in the videobook kernel-doc. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add Fusion and I2O message-based device interfaces to kernel-api book. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Implement prof=sleep profiling. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit for the call site that initiated the sleep. Sample readprofile output on i386: 306 ps2_sendbyte 1.3973 432 call_usermodehelper_keys 1.9548 484 ps2_command 0.6453 790 __driver_attach 4.7879 1593 msleep 44.2500 3976 sync_buffer 64.1290 4076 do_lookup 12.4648 8587 sync_page 122.6714 20820 total 0.0067 (NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from deep within the wakeup path.) akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched. lock_sock(), msleep(), others.. akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise. Presumably doing disk reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex. [akpm@osdl.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Vasily Averin authored
Fixed long-lived typo: remount_fs() needs BKL Signed-off-by:
Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Derek Fults authored
This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed to command line helper function, get_options. Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a list of cpus. Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the command line format for 'isolcpus=' Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> or <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order.) or a mixture <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> Signed-off-by:
Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Filipe Lautert authored
Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another document about selecting IO Schedulers. Signed-off-by:
Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Add 'blksize' option for block device based filesystems. During initialization this is used to set the block size on the device and the super block. The default block size is 512bytes. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs). The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems. Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility). Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing. This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the 'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Pavel Machek authored
Linus posted quite nice TRACE_RESUME how-to, and I think it is too nice to be hidden in archives of mailing list, so I turned it into Documentation piece. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
The swsusp userland interface has recently changed for a couple of times, but the changes have not been documented. Fix this, and document the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl(). Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in which swap files are supported by swsusp. Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Menage authored
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the alien caches, and they consume much memory. Add a kernel boot option to disable them. Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of nodes." Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Dec 06, 2006
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Paul Moore authored
Add a pointer to the OSDL wiki page on Generic Netlink. Signed-off-by:
Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Correct the documentation for bzImage protocol extension due to relocatable bzImage. Signed-off-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by:
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Jan Beulich authored
Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging when something goes wrong with it. This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option Most output is given by N=1 AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug= Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Adrian Bunk authored
-mregparm=3 has been enabled by default for some time on i386, and AFAIK there aren't any problems with it left. This patch removes the REGPARM config option and sets -mregparm=3 unconditionally. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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